Python - Exclude weekends between two Dates

Question

I want to calculate the difference between the two dates but want to exclude the weekends from it . Below is the format of dates :

CreateDate  - 2017-08-29 1         


        

Answer 1

With datetime module:

import datetime

d1 = datetime.datetime.strptime('2017-08-29 10:47:00', '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
d2 = datetime.datetime.strptime('2017-09-23 16:56:00', '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
delta = (d2 - d1).days
diff_weekdays = delta - (delta // 7) * 2

print(diff_weekdays)    # 19