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How to get last Friday's date with Python?

Is there a way to use Python to get last Friday's date and store it in a variable, regardless of which day of the week the program runs?
That is, if I run the program on Monday June 19th 2021 or Thursday June 22nd 2021, it always returns the previus Friday as a date variable: 2021-07-16.

To get the day of the week as an int we use datetime.datetime.today().weekday() and to subtract days from a datetime we use datetime.today() - timedelta(days=days_to_subtract) now we can make a dictionary linking the day of the week to the number of days to subtract and use that dictionary to make a subtraction:
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
d = {0:3,1:4,2:5,3:6,4:0,5:1,6:2}
lastfriday = datetime.today()-timedelta(days=d[datetime.today().weekday()])

Your question is similar to this one
Here's a starting point:
import datetime
def get_last_friday():
current_time = datetime.datetime.now()
last_friday = (current_time.date()
- datetime.timedelta(days=current_time.weekday())
+ datetime.timedelta(days=4, weeks=-1))
return last_friday

Get first and last day of given week number in python

I need a function which returns the first and last day respectively the Monday and Sunday of a given week number (and a year).
There is a difficulty for weeks where Jan 1st is not a Monday so I cannot use the standard datetime.datetime.strptime().

Here's the solution:
import calendar
import datetime
from datetime import timedelta
def get_start_and_end_date_from_calendar_week(year, calendar_week):
monday = datetime.datetime.strptime(f'{year}-{calendar_week}-1', "%Y-%W-%w").date()
return monday, monday + datetime.timedelta(days=6.9)
I extended the great logic of this post.
Update
There is a pitfall with the first calendar week. Certain countries handle the first week number differently. For example in Germany, if the first week in January has less than 4 days, it is counted as the last week of the year before. There's an overview at Wikipedia.

This other version found here is flawless and simple: https://www.pythonprogramming.in/how-to-get-start-and-end-of-week-data-from-a-given-date.html
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# Python's program to get start and end of week
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
date_str = '2018-01-14'
date_obj = datetime.strptime(date_str, '%Y-%m-%d')
start_of_week = date_obj - timedelta(days=date_obj.weekday()) # Monday
end_of_week = start_of_week + timedelta(days=6) # Sunday
print(start_of_week)
print(end_of_week)

How to obtain day of the month from day of the week?

I'm trying to get python to return the date of the month when a day of the week is inputed e.g:
1st Sunday of April 2018 returns 1
or 3rd Thursday of April 2018 returns 19
Are there python libraries or mathematical algorithms that do this? I've looked at Zeller's congruence but it seems like it does the opposite.

From your Input string separating all the values and then takes all the dates of that day from that month in that year.
Here a big try :
import calendar
import re
c = calendar.Calendar(firstweekday=calendar.SUNDAY)
string = "1st Sunday of April 2018"
string.split().pop(2)
string_list = string.split()
year = int(string_list[4])
month = list(calendar.month_name).index(string_list[3])
day_num = list(calendar.day_name).index(string_list[1])
which = int(re.search(r'\d+', string_list[0]).group())
monthcal = c.monthdatescalendar(year,month)
date = [day for week in monthcal for day in week if \
day.weekday() == day_num and \
day.month == month][which-1]
print(date.day)

Algorithm for getting current week number after changing the starting day of the week in python?

I want to design an algorithm which will calculate the week number according to the start week day set. for eg : - If I set the start day as WEDNESDAY and currently its 40 week and its TUESDAY, it should print 40 as the week number. If it is WEDNESDAY or THURSDAY, I should get 41.
Think of it like a cycle. From Wednesday till tuesday, it should be assigned a week no + 1, then when next wednesday comes, week should be incremented again.
I tried using calendar.setfirstweekday(calendar.WEDNESDAY) and then altering my system machine time, all I get is 40 as the week number everytime.
How do I design such as algorithm in python?
I have a similar problem for month, but I have designed a solution for it. Here is it.
current_date = datetime.datetime.now()
if current_date.day < gv.month_start_date:
month = current_date.month -1
if month == 0:
month = 12
else:
month = current_date.month
How can I design it for week?

I finally designed a solution for this.
if current_day >= set_week_day:
week = current_week
else:
week = current_week - 1
Works for all cases.

datetime in python has a function called isocalender to get the ISO week number (starts on Monday)
import datetime
datetime.date(2013, 9, 30).isocalendar()[1]
You can use this with a little bit of logic (this script should have the week begin on Wednesdays)
import datetime
day = 30
month = 9
year = 2013
weekcount = datetime.date(year, month, day).isocalendar()[1]
if datetime.date(year, month, day).isocalendar()[2] <= 3: # start on wednesday
weekcount -= 1
print weekcount

How to get week number in Python?

How to find out what week number is current year on June 16th (wk24) with Python?

datetime.date has a isocalendar() method, which returns a tuple containing the calendar week:
>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.date(2010, 6, 16).isocalendar()[1]
24
datetime.date.isocalendar() is an instance-method returning a tuple containing year, weeknumber and weekday in respective order for the given date instance.
In Python 3.9+ isocalendar() returns a namedtuple with the fields year, week and weekday which means you can access the week explicitly using a named attribute:
>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.date(2010, 6, 16).isocalendar().week
24

You can get the week number directly from datetime as string.
>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.date(2010, 6, 16).strftime("%V")
'24'
Also you can get different "types" of the week number of the year changing the strftime parameter for:
%U - Week number of the year (Sunday as the first day of the week) as a zero padded decimal number. All days in a new year preceding the first Sunday are considered to be in week 0. Examples: 00, 01, …, 53
%W - Week number of the year (Monday as the first day of the week) as a decimal number. All days in a new year preceding the first Monday are considered to be in week 0. Examples: 00, 01, …, 53
[...]
(Added in Python 3.6, backported to some distribution's Python 2.7's) Several additional directives not required by the C89 standard are included for convenience. These parameters all correspond to ISO 8601 date values. These may not be available on all platforms when used with the strftime() method.
[...]
%V - ISO 8601 week as a decimal number with Monday as the first day of the week. Week 01 is the week containing Jan 4. Examples: 01, 02, …, 53
from: datetime — Basic date and time types — Python 3.7.3 documentation
I've found out about it from here. It worked for me in Python 2.7.6

I believe date.isocalendar() is going to be the answer. This article explains the math behind ISO 8601 Calendar. Check out the date.isocalendar() portion of the datetime page of the Python documentation.
>>> dt = datetime.date(2010, 6, 16)
>>> wk = dt.isocalendar()[1]
24
.isocalendar() return a 3-tuple with (year, wk num, wk day). dt.isocalendar()[0] returns the year,dt.isocalendar()[1] returns the week number, dt.isocalendar()[2] returns the week day. Simple as can be.

There are many systems for week numbering. The following are the most common systems simply put with code examples:
ISO: First week starts with Monday and must contain the January 4th (or first Thursday of the year). The ISO calendar is already implemented in Python:
>>> from datetime import date
>>> date(2014, 12, 29).isocalendar()[:2]
(2015, 1)
North American: First week starts with Sunday and must contain the January 1st. The following code is my modified version of Python's ISO calendar implementation for the North American system:
from datetime import date
def week_from_date(date_object):
date_ordinal = date_object.toordinal()
year = date_object.year
week = ((date_ordinal - _week1_start_ordinal(year)) // 7) + 1
if week >= 52:
if date_ordinal >= _week1_start_ordinal(year + 1):
year += 1
week = 1
return year, week
def _week1_start_ordinal(year):
jan1 = date(year, 1, 1)
jan1_ordinal = jan1.toordinal()
jan1_weekday = jan1.weekday()
week1_start_ordinal = jan1_ordinal - ((jan1_weekday + 1) % 7)
return week1_start_ordinal
>>> from datetime import date
>>> week_from_date(date(2014, 12, 29))
(2015, 1)
MMWR (CDC): First week starts with Sunday and must contain the January 4th (or first Wednesday of the year). I created the epiweeks package specifically for this numbering system (also has support for the ISO system). Here is an example:
>>> from datetime import date
>>> from epiweeks import Week
>>> Week.fromdate(date(2014, 12, 29))
(2014, 53)

Here's another option:
import time
from time import gmtime, strftime
d = time.strptime("16 Jun 2010", "%d %b %Y")
print(strftime(d, '%U'))
which prints 24.
See: http://docs.python.org/library/datetime.html#strftime-and-strptime-behavior

The ISO week suggested by others is a good one, but it might not fit your needs. It assumes each week begins with a Monday, which leads to some interesting anomalies at the beginning and end of the year.
If you'd rather use a definition that says week 1 is always January 1 through January 7, regardless of the day of the week, use a derivation like this:
>>> testdate=datetime.datetime(2010,6,16)
>>> print(((testdate - datetime.datetime(testdate.year,1,1)).days // 7) + 1)
24

Generally to get the current week number (starts from Sunday):
from datetime import *
today = datetime.today()
print today.strftime("%U")

For the integer value of the instantaneous week of the year try:
import datetime
datetime.datetime.utcnow().isocalendar()[1]

If you are only using the isocalendar week number across the board the following should be sufficient:
import datetime
week = date(year=2014, month=1, day=1).isocalendar()[1]
This retrieves the second member of the tuple returned by isocalendar for our week number.
However, if you are going to be using date functions that deal in the Gregorian calendar, isocalendar alone will not work! Take the following example:
import datetime
date = datetime.datetime.strptime("2014-1-1", "%Y-%W-%w")
week = date.isocalendar()[1]
The string here says to return the Monday of the first week in 2014 as our date. When we use isocalendar to retrieve the week number here, we would expect to get the same week number back, but we don't. Instead we get a week number of 2. Why?
Week 1 in the Gregorian calendar is the first week containing a Monday. Week 1 in the isocalendar is the first week containing a Thursday. The partial week at the beginning of 2014 contains a Thursday, so this is week 1 by the isocalendar, and making date week 2.
If we want to get the Gregorian week, we will need to convert from the isocalendar to the Gregorian. Here is a simple function that does the trick.
import datetime
def gregorian_week(date):
# The isocalendar week for this date
iso_week = date.isocalendar()[1]
# The baseline Gregorian date for the beginning of our date's year
base_greg = datetime.datetime.strptime('%d-1-1' % date.year, "%Y-%W-%w")
# If the isocalendar week for this date is not 1, we need to
# decrement the iso_week by 1 to get the Gregorian week number
return iso_week if base_greg.isocalendar()[1] == 1 else iso_week - 1

I found these to be the quickest way to get the week number; all of the variants.
from datetime import datetime
dt = datetime(2021, 1, 3) # Date is January 3rd 2021 (Sunday), year starts with Friday
dt.strftime("%W") # '00'; Monday is considered first day of week, Sunday is the last day of the week which started in the previous year
dt.strftime("%U") # '01'; Sunday is considered first day of week
dt.strftime("%V") # '53'; ISO week number; result is '53' since there is no Thursday in this year's part of the week
Further clarification for %V can be found in the Python doc:
The ISO year consists of 52 or 53 full weeks, and where a week starts on a Monday and ends on a Sunday. The first week of an ISO year is the first (Gregorian) calendar week of a year containing a Thursday. This is called week number 1, and the ISO year of that Thursday is the same as its Gregorian year.
https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#datetime.date.isocalendar
NOTE: Bear in mind the return value is a string, so pass the result to a int constructor if you need a number.

I summarize the discussion to two steps:
Convert the raw format to a datetime object.
Use the function of a datetime object or a date object to calculate the week number.
Warm up
from datetime import datetime, date, time
d = date(2005, 7, 14)
t = time(12, 30)
dt = datetime.combine(d, t)
print(dt)
1st step
To manually generate a datetime object, we can use datetime.datetime(2017,5,3) or datetime.datetime.now().
But in reality, we usually need to parse an existing string. we can use strptime function, such as datetime.strptime('2017-5-3','%Y-%m-%d') in which you have to specific the format. Detail of different format code can be found in the official documentation.
Alternatively, a more convenient way is to use dateparse module. Examples are dateparser.parse('16 Jun 2010'), dateparser.parse('12/2/12') or dateparser.parse('2017-5-3')
The above two approaches will return a datetime object.
2nd step
Use the obtained datetime object to call strptime(format). For example,
python
dt = datetime.strptime('2017-01-1','%Y-%m-%d') # return a datetime object. This day is Sunday
print(dt.strftime("%W")) # '00' Monday as the 1st day of the week. All days in a new year preceding the 1st Monday are considered to be in week 0.
print(dt.strftime("%U")) # '01' Sunday as the 1st day of the week. All days in a new year preceding the 1st Sunday are considered to be in week 0.
print(dt.strftime("%V")) # '52' Monday as the 1st day of the week. Week 01 is the week containing Jan 4.
It's very tricky to decide which format to use. A better way is to get a date object to call isocalendar(). For example,
python
dt = datetime.strptime('2017-01-1','%Y-%m-%d') # return a datetime object
d = dt.date() # convert to a date object. equivalent to d = date(2017,1,1), but date.strptime() don't have the parse function
year, week, weekday = d.isocalendar()
print(year, week, weekday) # (2016,52,7) in the ISO standard
In reality, you will be more likely to use date.isocalendar() to prepare a weekly report, especially in the Christmas-New Year shopping season.

You can try %W directive as below:
d = datetime.datetime.strptime('2016-06-16','%Y-%m-%d')
print(datetime.datetime.strftime(d,'%W'))
'%W': Week number of the year (Monday as the first day of the week) as a decimal number. All days in a new year preceding the first Monday are considered to be in week 0. (00, 01, ..., 53)

For pandas users, if you want to get a column of week number:
df['weekofyear'] = df['Date'].dt.week

isocalendar() returns incorrect year and weeknumber values for some dates:
Python 2.7.3 (default, Feb 27 2014, 19:58:35)
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import datetime as dt
>>> myDateTime = dt.datetime.strptime("20141229T000000.000Z",'%Y%m%dT%H%M%S.%fZ')
>>> yr,weekNumber,weekDay = myDateTime.isocalendar()
>>> print "Year is " + str(yr) + ", weekNumber is " + str(weekNumber)
Year is 2015, weekNumber is 1
Compare with Mark Ransom's approach:
>>> yr = myDateTime.year
>>> weekNumber = ((myDateTime - dt.datetime(yr,1,1)).days/7) + 1
>>> print "Year is " + str(yr) + ", weekNumber is " + str(weekNumber)
Year is 2014, weekNumber is 52

Let's say you need to have a week combined with the year of the current day as a string.
import datetime
year,week = datetime.date.today().isocalendar()[:2]
week_of_the_year = f"{year}-{week}"
print(week_of_the_year)
You might get something like 2021-28

If you want to change the first day of the week you can make use of the calendar module.
import calendar
import datetime
calendar.setfirstweekday(calendar.WEDNESDAY)
isodate = datetime.datetime.strptime(sweek,"%Y-%m-%d").isocalendar()
week_of_year = isodate[1]
For example, calculate the sprint number for a week starting on WEDNESDAY:
def calculate_sprint(sweek):
calendar.setfirstweekday(calendar.WEDNESDAY)
isodate=datetime.datetime.strptime(sweek,"%Y-%m-%d").isocalendar()
return "{year}-{month}".format(year=isodate[0], month=isodate[1])
calculate_sprint('2021-01-01')
>>>'2020-53'

We have a similar issue and we came up with this logic
I have tested for 1year test cases & all passed
import datetime
def week_of_month(dt):
first_day = dt.replace(day=1)
dom = dt.day
if first_day.weekday() == 6:
adjusted_dom = dom
else:
adjusted_dom = dom + first_day.weekday()
if adjusted_dom % 7 == 0 and first_day.weekday() != 6:
value = adjusted_dom / 7.0 + 1
elif first_day.weekday() == 6 and adjusted_dom % 7 == 0 and adjusted_dom == 7:
value = 1
else:
value = int(ceil(adjusted_dom / 7.0))
return int(value)
year = 2020
month = 01
date = 01
date_value = datetime.datetime(year, month, date).date()
no = week_of_month(date_value)

userInput = input ("Please enter project deadline date (dd/mm/yyyy/): ")
import datetime
currentDate = datetime.datetime.today()
testVar = datetime.datetime.strptime(userInput ,"%d/%b/%Y").date()
remainDays = testVar - currentDate.date()
remainWeeks = (remainDays.days / 7.0) + 1
print ("Please pay attention for deadline of project X in days and weeks are : " ,(remainDays) , "and" ,(remainWeeks) , "Weeks ,\nSo hurryup.............!!!")

A lot of answers have been given, but id like to add to them.
If you need the week to display as a year/week style (ex. 1953 - week 53 of 2019, 2001 - week 1 of 2020 etc.), you can do this:
import datetime
year = datetime.datetime.now()
week_num = datetime.date(year.year, year.month, year.day).strftime("%V")
long_week_num = str(year.year)[0:2] + str(week_num)
It will take the current year and week, and long_week_num in the day of writing this will be:
>>> 2006