Determine if a day is a business day in Python / Pandas

Question

I currently have a program setup to run two different ways. One way is to run over a specified time frame, and the other way is to run everyday. However, when I have it set to r

Answer 1

Using at least numpy version 1.7.0., try np.is_busday()

start = datetime.date.today().strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
end = datetime.date.today().strftime("%Y-%m-%d")

if start == end:

    # added code here
    if not np.is_busday(start):
        print("Not a Business day")