Get Day name from Weekday int

Question

I have a weekday integer (0,1,2...) and I need to get the day name (\'Monday\', \'Tuesday\',...).

Is there a built in Python function or way of doing this?

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Answer 1

If you need just to print the day name from datetime object you can use like this:

current_date = datetime.now
current_date.strftime('%A')  # will return "Wednesday"
current_date.strftime('%a')  # will return "Wed"

Answer 2

It's very easy:

week = ["Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday", "Sunday"]
week[weekday]

Answer 3

You can use built in functions for that for ex suppose you have to find day according to the specific date.

import calendar

month,day,year = 9,19,1995
ans =calendar.weekday(year,month,day)

print(calendar.day_name[ans])

calendar.weekday(year, month, day) - Returns the day of the week (0 is Monday) for year (1970–…), month (1–12), day (1–31).

calendar.day_name - An array that represents the days of the week in the current locale

for more reference -https://docs.python.org/2/library/calendar.html#calendar.weekday

Answer 4

You can use index number like this:

days=["sunday","monday"," Tuesday", "Wednesday" ,"Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"]
def date(i):

    return days[i]
print (date(int(input("input index.  "))))

Answer 5

You can create your own list and use it with format.

import datetime

days_ES = ["Domingo", "Lunes", "Martes", "Miércoles", "Jueves", "Viernes", "Sábado"]

t = datetime.datetime.now()
f = t.strftime("{%w} %Y-%m-%d").format(*days_ES)

print(f)

Prints:

Lunes 2018-03-12

Answer 6

I have been using calendar module:

import calendar
calendar.day_name[0]
'Monday'