How to get weekday name in locale format from number in Python?

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It it other method to get weekday name in Python that setting date to monday and using strftime('%a') than adding timedelta(day=1).

do you mean [`calendar.day_abbr[0]`](https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/calendar.html#calendar.day_abbr) ? — styvane, Apr 11 '16 at 13:32

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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From this answer:

You can use

>>> import calendar
>>> dayoftheweek = 2
>>> calendar.day_name[dayoftheweek]
'Wednesday'

Where Monday = 0, Tuesday = 1 etc.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:15

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answered Apr 11 '16 at 13:33

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 11 '16 at 13:31

You can get the weekday names like this:

import locale

locale.nl_langinfo(locale.DAY_1)
locale.nl_langinfo(locale.DAY_2)
locale.nl_langinfo(locale.DAY_3)
locale.nl_langinfo(locale.DAY_4)
locale.nl_langinfo(locale.DAY_5)
locale.nl_langinfo(locale.DAY_6)
locale.nl_langinfo(locale.DAY_7)

Still a bit unsatisfactory that you cannot specify the weekday as an integer variable. In my environment you can do it like this, as it happens:

locale.nl_langinfo(locale.DAY_1 + x)

but the docs don't guarantee it.

How to get weekday name in locale format from number in Python?

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