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

you can use something like this to get third fridday of the month (current month), and then simply compare that third_friday with your day (by year, month, day)

from datetime import datetime, timedelta
import calendar

now = datetime.now()
first_day_of_month = datetime(now.year, now.month, 1)
first_friday = first_day_of_month + timedelta(days=((4-calendar.monthrange(now.year,now.month)[0])+7)%7)
# 4 is friday of week
third_friday = first_friday + timedelta(days=14)

Hope this helps.