Find the Friday of previous/last week in python

Question

Eg1. Suppose I have a day 4/30/07 .Then I need to get 4/27/07.

Eg2. Suppose I have a day 6/29/07 .Then I need to get 6/22/07.

Answer 1

An another and easier way is to use python-dateutil. To get the previous Friday :

>>> from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta, FR
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> datetime(2015, 7, 8) + relativedelta(weekday=FR(-1))
datetime.datetime(2015, 7, 3, 0, 0)

And the next Friday :

>>> datetime(2015, 7, 8) + relativedelta(weekday=FR(+1))
datetime.datetime(2015, 7, 10, 0, 0)

Answer 2

Not specific to Friday, but given a day "taget_dayofweek" (where Monday is 0 and Sunday is 6)

from datetime import datetime

target_dayofweek = 4  # Friday
current_dayofweek = datetime.now().weekday() # Today


if target_dayofweek <= current_dayofweek:
    # target is in the current week
    endDate = datetime.now() - timedelta(current_dayofweek - target_dayofweek)

else: 
    # target is in the previous week
    endDate = datetime.now() - timedelta(weeks=1) + timedelta(target_dayofweek - current_dayofweek)

Answer 3

date_object = datetime.date.today()
from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta
previousWeekLastDay = date_object + relativedelta(weekday=SU(-1))
previousWeekFirstDay = previousWeekLastDay + relativedelta(weekday=MO(-1))
print(previousWeekFirstDay)
print(previousWeekLastDay)

previoustopreviousWeekLastDay1= date_object + relativedelta(weekday=SU(-2))
previoustopreviousWeekFirstDay1= previousWeekLastDay1 + relativedelta(weekday=MO(-1))
print(previoustopreviousWeekFirstDay1)
print(previoustopreviousWeekLastDay1)

Answer 4

Assuming day is a datetime.date or datetime.datetime object, this code creates a datetime/date object for last week's friday:

friday = day - timedelta(days=day.weekday()) + timedelta(days=4, weeks=-1)

Explanation: timedelta(days=day.weekday()) is the offset between monday and day so adding 4 days and subtracting one week will get you last week's friday.

Of course you can simplify this (+4d -1w = -3d):

friday = day - timedelta(days=day.weekday() + 3)

Note: To get timedelta, use from datetime import timedelta or just import datetime and use datetime.timedelta

Answer 5

There are plenty of options in pandas.tseries.offsets This one is for previous week friday.

from pandas.tseries.offsets import Week
f_dates = required_df.index - Week(1, weekday=4)