How do I get the day of week given a date?

Question

I want to find out the following: given a date (datetime object), what is the corresponding day of the week?

For instance, Sunday is the first day, Mond

Answer 1

If you'd like to have the date in English:

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> datetime.today().strftime('%A')
'Wednesday'

Read more: https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html#strftime-strptime-behavior