Get Short Version of Weekdays - Python datetime

Python datetime - Get Weekday Short Version

To get Weekday Short Version using Python datetime, call strftime() with %a passed as argument.

Examples

1. Get weekday short version of current date

In the following example, we will take the current date, and get the short version of the weekday.

Python Program

#import datetime package
import datetime

#get current time
d = datetime.datetime.now()

#print date
print(d)

#get the weekday short version
print(d.strftime("%a"))

Output

2019-06-26 08:01:34.116109
Wed

2. Get weekday short version from a given date

In the following example, we will take a date 2019-08-12 and get the short version of the weekday.

Python Program

#import datetime package
import datetime

#set a date
d = datetime.datetime(2019, 8, 12)

#print date
print(d)

#get the weekday short version
print(d.strftime("%a"))

Output

2019-08-12 00:00:00
Mon

Summary

In this tutorial, we extracted the short version of weekday using datetime package.