Question

The same problem to Find day difference between two dates (excluding weekend days) but it is for javascript. How to do that in Python?

Answer 1

Try it with scikits.timeseries:

import scikits.timeseries as ts
import datetime

a = datetime.datetime(2011,8,1)
b = datetime.datetime(2011,8,29)

diff_business_days = ts.Date('B', b) - ts.Date('B', a)
# returns 20

or with dateutil:

import datetime
from dateutil import rrule

a = datetime.datetime(2011,8,1)
b = datetime.datetime(2011,8,29)

diff_business_days = len(list(rrule.rrule(rrule.DAILY,
                                          dtstart=a,
                                          until=b - datetime.timedelta(days=1),
                                          byweekday=(rrule.MO, rrule.TU, rrule.WE, rrule.TH, rrule.FR))))

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scikits.timeseries look depricated : http://pytseries.sourceforge.net/

With pandas instead someone can do :

import pandas as pd

a = datetime.datetime(2015, 10, 1)
b = datetime.datetime(2015, 10, 29)

diff_calendar_days = pd.date_range(a, b).size
diff_business_days = pd.bdate_range(a, b).size