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Python datetime – Get Weekday Short Version
To get Weekday Short Version using Python datetime, call strftime() with %a passed as argument.
Example 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
WedExample 2: Get Weekday Short Version of a Specific 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
MonSummary
In this tutorial, we extracted the short version of weekday using datetime package.