[Tutor] how to use the time module?

[Jacob S.]

>import string
>import datetime

>y,m,d=string.split(raw_input("Enter a date('YYYY-MM-DD'):"),"-")
>a=datetime.date(int(y),int(m),int(d))
>print a.strftime('%A')

I can make it simpler yet
First, get rid of importing the string module. You only want string.split()
and you can use string methods for that.
Then, you can change the code from there to:

import datetime

y,m,d = raw_input("Enter a date('YYYY-MM-DD'):").split("-")
a = datetime.date(int(y),int(m),int(d))
print a.strftime("%A")

HTH,
Jacob Schmidt