how to find current day is weekday or weekends in Python?

Question

(This question already has answers here): question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29384696/how-to-find-current-day-is-weekday-or-weekends-in-python

Answer 1

You can use the .weekday() method of a datetime.date object

import datetime

weekno = datetime.datetime.today().weekday()

if weekno < 5:
    print "Weekday"
else:  # 5 Sat, 6 Sun
    print "Weekend"