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

import datetime
int(datetime.datetime.today().strftime('%w'))+1

this should give you your real day number - 1 = sunday, 2 = monday, etc...