On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 12:48 PM, Sayth Renshaw <flebber.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there an obvious method I am missing in creating a list of dates? I want > to get a list of each Saturday and each Wednesday for the year 2017. > > It seems and maybe this is where I am wrong but doesn't the datetime library > already know the dates if yes is there an easy way to query it? >
Sorta-kinda. >>> import datetime >>> today = datetime.date.today() >>> monday = today - datetime.timedelta(days=today.weekday()) >>> wednesday = monday + datetime.timedelta(days=2) >>> saturday = monday + datetime.timedelta(days=5) >>> week = datetime.timedelta(days=7) >>> next_wed = wednesday + week You can mess around with that. If you want to find the beginning of the year, you could start by using datetime.date(2017, 1, 1) instead of today(), and then locate the previous Monday the same way. So yes, all the information is available, but no, there's no easy way to say "give me all the Saturdays in 2017". You'd have to iterate. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
