How do I get the day of week given a date?

Question

I want to find out the following: given a date (datetime object), what is the corresponding day of the week?

For instance, Sunday is the first day, Mond

Answer 1

Using Canlendar Module

import calendar
a=calendar.weekday(year,month,day)
days=["MONDAY","TUESDAY","WEDNESDAY","THURSDAY","FRIDAY","SATURDAY","SUNDAY"]
print(days[a])

Answer 2

here is how to convert a listof dates to date

import datetime,time
ls={'1/1/2007','1/2/2017'}
dt=datetime.datetime.strptime(ls[1], "%m/%d/%Y")
print(dt)
print(dt.month)
print(dt.year)