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Recipe 576619: Compare passed day of week to today's day of week

This function compares the day of the week of today to the day of the week passed.

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#!/usr/bin/env python

def test_for_day(target_day):
    """ 
    Accepts a weekday and tests if today is that weekday.
    """
    import time
    # Get the date object of today's date:
    todays_date = time.localtime().tm_wday
    # Form a dictionary of the days of the week, starting on Monday
    # since this is the time module's assumption:
    date_dict = dict(enumerate('Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday'.split()))
    # Find the weekday of today's date and compare to target:
    if date_dict[todays_date] == target_day:
        print "Today is the target (%s)." % target_day
    else:
        print "Today is %s, not %s." % (date_dict[todays_date], target_day)

Discussion

I used this to check whether or not a script should perform a certain task to only be performed on a given weekday, regardless of what date it was.

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