Date is weekend
Checks if the given date is a weekend.
- Use
datetime.datetime.weekday()
to get the day of the week as an integer. - Check if the day of the week is greater than
4
. - Omit the second argument,
d
, to use a default value ofdatetime.today()
.
from datetime import datetime, date def is_weekend(d = datetime.today()): return d.weekday() > 4 is_weekend(date(2020, 10, 25)) # True is_weekend(date(2020, 10, 28)) # False