[Tutor] Through a glass, darkly: the datetime module

[Dave Angel]

On 10/06/2012 07:19 PM, Richard D. Moores wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Walter Prins <wprins at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Does this hint help?
>>
>>>>> import datetime
>>>>> mydate = datetime.date(2012,10,5)
>>>>> mydate = mydate + datetime.timedelta(days=30)
>>>>> print mydate
>> 2012-11-04
> Yes! Thanks to all for their rapid responses.
>
> But now I'm thinking it would be handy to not only know that, say, 500
> days from today is 2014-02-18, but to know what day if the week that
> is. I suppose the calendar module is to be used for this, but I
> haven't been able to get it to work for me. So what day of the week IS
> 2014-02-18?
>
> The docs say
> calendar.weekday(year, month, day)
> Returns the day of the week (0 is Monday) for year (1970–...), month
> (1–12), day (1–31).
>
>>>> import calendar
>>>> calendar.weekday(2014, 2, 18)
> 1
>
> That "1" means Tuesday, right? But how can I use calendar to print out
> that word, "TUESDAY"?
>
> Thanks
>

To turn an integer (0-6, or whatever) into a string, just use a tuple of
the same size:

tran = ("MONDAY", "TUESDAY", "WEDNESDAY", "THURSDAY", "FRIDAY",
"SATURDAY", "SUNDAY")
i = 1
print tran[i]

(prints "TUESDAY")

Note that I'm not sure of the actual mapping of the integers coming out
of the weekday function, so you might have to rearrange the strings above.

-- 

DaveA