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 is the nicest I've found so far.

from datetime import date
from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta, FR

def get_third_fri_of_mth(dt):
    print (dt + relativedelta(day=1, weekday=FR(3)))

get_third_fri_of_mth(date(2019, 1, 30))
get_third_fri_of_mth(date(2019, 6, 4))

Relative delta replaces the day in the date you specify by day = 1. From this new date, weekday=FR(3) specifies the 3rd friday.