30-seconds-of-code/python/snippets/is-weekend.md

title, type, tags, cover, dateModified

title	type	tags	cover	dateModified
Date is weekend	snippet	date	two-lighthouses	2020-11-02T19:28:05+02:00

Checks if the given date is a weekend.

• Use datetime.datetime.weekday() to get the day of the week as an integer.
• Check if the day of the week is greater than 4.
• Omit the second argument, d, to use a default value of datetime.today().

from datetime import datetime

def is_weekend(d = datetime.today()):
  return d.weekday() > 4

from datetime import date

is_weekend(date(2020, 10, 25)) # True
is_weekend(date(2020, 10, 28)) # False