Find the date for the first Monday after a given a date

Question

Given a particular date, say 2011-07-02, how can I find the date of the next Monday (or any weekday day for that matter) after that date?

Answer 1

Here's a succinct and generic alternative to the slightly weighty answers above.

# Returns the date of the next given weekday after
# the given date. For example, the date of next Monday.
# NB: if it IS the day we're looking for, this returns 0.
# consider then doing onDay(foo, day + 1).
onDay = lambda date, day: date + datetime.timedelta(days=(day-date.weekday()+7)%7)

Answer 2

Try

>>> dt = datetime(2011, 7, 2)
>>> dt + timedelta(days=(7 - dt.weekday()))
datetime.datetime(2011, 7, 4, 0, 0)

using, that the next monday is 7 days after the a monday, 6 days after a tuesday, and so on, and also using, that Python's datetime type reports monday as 0, ..., sunday as 6.

Answer 3

You can start adding one day to date object and stop when it's monday.

>>> d = datetime.date(2011, 7, 2)
>>> while d.weekday() != 0: #0 for monday
...     d += datetime.timedelta(days=1)
... 
>>> d
datetime.date(2011, 7, 4)

Answer 4

import datetime

d = datetime.date(2011, 7, 2)
while d.weekday() != 0:
    d += datetime.timedelta(1)

Answer 5

This will give the first next Monday after given date:

import datetime

def get_next_monday(year, month, day):
    date0 = datetime.date(year, month, day)
    next_monday = date0 + datetime.timedelta(7 - date0.weekday() or 7)
    return next_monday

print get_next_monday(2011, 7, 2)
print get_next_monday(2015, 8, 31)
print get_next_monday(2015, 9, 1)

2011-07-04
2015-09-07
2015-09-07