Question

How to get the start date and end date of a week, and also if the following dates below comes under a particular range of start and end dates of the week how to show only those weeks start and end date.I am using python 2.4

2011-03-07  0:27:41
2011-03-06  0:13:41
2011-03-05  0:17:40
2011-03-04  0:55:40
2011-05-16  0:55:40
2011-07-16  0:55:40

Answer 1

from datetime import datetime
from time import strptime

Now

datetime(*strptime('2011-03-08  0:27:41', '%Y-%m-%d  %H:%M:%S')[0:6]).weekday()

returns the day of the week for the first date “as an integer, where Monday is 0 and Sunday is 6”, so selecting those dates for which weekday() in [0, 6] will give you the start and end dates of weeks (or use 4 instead of 6 for work weeks).