Find the Friday of previous/last week in python

Question

Eg1. Suppose I have a day 4/30/07 .Then I need to get 4/27/07.

Eg2. Suppose I have a day 6/29/07 .Then I need to get 6/22/07.

Answer 1

An another and easier way is to use python-dateutil. To get the previous Friday :

>>> from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta, FR
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> datetime(2015, 7, 8) + relativedelta(weekday=FR(-1))
datetime.datetime(2015, 7, 3, 0, 0)

And the next Friday :

>>> datetime(2015, 7, 8) + relativedelta(weekday=FR(+1))
datetime.datetime(2015, 7, 10, 0, 0)