Convert number string to weekday

Question

How do I convert 20230102 to Monday?

Using python, I need to accomplish this. I have a column of numbers in the format yyyymmdd.

Answer 1

Parse with strptime and format with strftime:

>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> n = 20230102
>>> datetime.strptime(str(n), "%Y%m%d").strftime("%A")
'Monday'

See strftime() and strptime() Format Codes for documentation of the % strings.

Answer 2

You can do it with weekday() method.

from datetime import date import calendar
my_date = date.today()
calendar.day_name[my_date.weekday()]  #Friday

Answer 3

You can convert number string into weekday using "datetime" module

import datetime

def get_weekday(date):
    date = datetime.datetime.strptime(date, '%Y%m%d')
    return date.strftime('%A')

print(get_weekday('20230102'))

This is how you can achieve your desired output.