# find the day of the week of a given date # Python will trap impossible dates like (1900, 2, 29) # tested with Python24 vegaseat 01aug2005 from datetime import date # a typical birthday year, month, day # or change it to your own birthday... birthday = date(1983, 12, 25) dayList = ['Monday', 'Tuesday', 'Wednesday', 'Thursday', 'Friday', 'Saturday', 'Sunday'] # date.weekday() returns 0 for Monday and so on, so pick the day string from the dayList print "The day of the week on %s was a %s" % (birthday.strftime("%d%b%Y"), dayList[date.weekday(birthday)])