is_weekend python Code Snippet in 2024

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