python - How to calculate next Friday?

Question

How can I calculate the date of the next Friday?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8801084/how-to-calculate-next-friday

Answer 1

To start off, you'll need the datetime library:

import datetime

Then you need a starting date; that is, today.

d = datetime.date.today()

Starting from there, you'll want to keep going forward until you reach Friday. The date.weekday method represents Monday through Sunday as 0 through 6, so:

while d.weekday() != 4:

If the current day isn't Friday, you'll have to add a day, one at a time. To add an interval of time to a date object, you use a timedelta object.

    d += datetime.timedelta(1)

Put it all together, and d will ultimately contain a date object representing next Friday. Note that if today is Friday, this code will produce today; you can tweak it if you need it to produce next Friday instead.