How to get Weekday Short Version using 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.

# 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.

# 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.