Python: third Friday of a month

Question

I am a rookie python programmer and I need to write a script to check if a given date (passed as a string in the form \'Month, day year\') is the third Friday of the month. I am

Answer 1

This should do it:

from datetime import datetime 

def is_third_friday(s):
    d = datetime.strptime(s, '%b %d, %Y')
    return d.weekday() == 4 and 15 <= d.day <= 21

Test:

print is_third_friday('Jan 18, 2013')  # True
print is_third_friday('Feb 22, 2013')  # False
print is_third_friday('Jun 21, 2013')  # True
print is_third_friday('Sep 20, 2013')  # True