Question

How to get saturday and sunday dates from given date range.

for example :

  start_date = 2011-09-01
  end_date = 2011-09-15

Now it should give the out put

2011-09-03
2011-09-04
2011-09-10
2011-09-11

Any help really appreciate.

Answer 1

Well, I think this should work:

from datetime import datetime, timedelta

def daterange(start_date, end_date):
  for n in range((end_date - start_date).days):
    yield start_date + timedelta(n)

start_date = '2011-09-01'
end_date = '2011-09-15'
format = '%Y-%m-%d'

start_date_object = datetime.strptime(start_date, format)
end_date_object = datetime.strptime(end_date, format)

for day in daterange(start_date_object, end_date_object):
  if day.weekday() in [5, 6]:
    print day.strftime(format)