Python: give start and end of week data from a given date
PythonDateTimePython Problem Overview
day = "13/Oct/2013"
print("Parsing :",day)
day, mon, yr= day.split("/")
sday = yr+" "+day+" "+mon
myday = time.strptime(sday, '%Y %d %b')
Sstart = yr+" "+time.strftime("%U",myday )+" 0"
Send = yr+" "+time.strftime("%U",myday )+" 6"
startweek = time.strptime(Sstart, '%Y %U %w')
endweek = time.strptime(Send, '%Y %U %w')
print("Start of week:",time.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y",startweek))
print("End of week:",time.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y",endweek))
print("Data entered:",time.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y",myday))
out:
Parsing : 13/Oct/2013
Start of week: Sun, 13 Oct 2013
End of week: Sat, 19 Oct 2013
Sun, 13 Oct 2013
Learned python in the past 2 days and was wondering if there is a cleaner way to do this.This method works...it just looks ugly and It seems silly to have to create a new time variable for each date, and that there should be a way to offset the given date to the start and end of the week through a simple call but i have been unable to find anything on the internet or documentation that looks like it would work.
Python Solutions
Solution 1 - Python
Use the datetime module.
This will yield start and end of week (from Monday to Sunday):
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
day = '12/Oct/2013'
dt = datetime.strptime(day, '%d/%b/%Y')
start = dt - timedelta(days=dt.weekday())
end = start + timedelta(days=6)
print(start)
print(end)
EDIT:
print(start.strftime('%d/%b/%Y'))
print(end.strftime('%d/%b/%Y'))
Solution 2 - Python
Slight variation if you want to keep the standard time formatting and refer to the current day:
from datetime import date, timedelta
today = date.today()
start = today - timedelta(days=today.weekday())
end = start + timedelta(days=6)
print("Today: " + str(today))
print("Start: " + str(start))
print("End: " + str(end))
Solution 3 - Python
Use the pendulum module:
today = pendulum.now()
start = today.start_of('week')
end = today.end_of('week')
Solution 4 - Python
you can also use Arrow:
import arrow
now = arrow.now()
start_of_week = now.floor('week')
end_of_week = now.ceil('week')
Solution 5 - Python
pip install pendulum
import pendulum
today = pendulum.now()
start = today.start_of('week')
print(start.to_datetime_string())
end = today.end_of('week')
print(end.to_datetime_string())