Return a list of weekdays, starting with given weekday

Question

My task is to define a function weekdays(weekday) that returns a list of weekdays, starting with the given weekday. It should work like this:

Answer 1

Another approach using the standard library:

days = ['Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday',
        'Sunday']
def weekdays(weekday):
  n = days.index(weekday)
  return list(itertools.islice(itertools.cycle(days), n, n + 7))

Itertools is a bit much in this case. Since you know at most one extra cycle is needed, you could do that manually:

days = ['Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday',
        'Sunday']
days += days
def weekdays(weekday):
  n = days.index(weekday)
  return days[n:n+7]

Both give the expected output:

>>> weekdays("Wednesday")
['Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday', 'Sunday', 'Monday', 'Tuesday']
>>> weekdays("Sunday")
['Sunday', 'Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday']
>>> weekdays("Monday")
['Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday', 'Sunday']