Question

How can you calculate the following Friday at 3am as a datetime object?

Clarification: i.e., the calculated date should always be greater than 7 days away, and less than or equal to 14.

Answer 1

Here’s a function and a test that it meets the OP’s requirements:

import datetime

_3AM = datetime.time(hour=3)
_FRI = 4 # Monday=0 for weekday()

def next_friday_3am(now):
    now += datetime.timedelta(days=7)
    if now.time() < _3AM:
        now = now.combine(now.date(),_3AM)
    else:
        now = now.combine(now.date(),_3AM) + datetime.timedelta(days=1)
    return now + datetime.timedelta((_FRI - now.weekday()) % 7)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    start = datetime.datetime.now()
    for i in xrange(7*24*60*60):
        now = start + datetime.timedelta(seconds=i)
        then = next_friday_3am(now)
        assert datetime.timedelta(days=7) < then - now <= datetime.timedelta(days=14)
        assert then.weekday() == _FRI
        assert then.time() == _3AM