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

Yet another way to accomplish this... using integer division...

import datetime

def is_date_the_nth_friday_of_month(nth, date=None):
    #nth is an integer representing the nth weekday of the month
    #date is a datetime.datetime object, which you can create by doing datetime.datetime(2016,1,11) for January 11th, 2016

    if not date:
        #if date is None, then use today as the date
        date = datetime.datetime.today()

    if date.weekday() == 4:
        #if the weekday of date is Friday, then see if it is the nth Friday
        if (date.day - 1) // 7 == (nth - 1):
            #We use integer division to determine the nth Friday
            #if this integer division == 0, then date is the first Friday, 
            # if the integer division is...
            #   1 == 2nd Friday
            #   2 == 3rd Friday
            #   3 == 4th Friday
            #   4 == 5th Friday
            return True

    return False