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Re: How to find number of whole weeks between dates?

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On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> wrote:
> In a message of Wed, 10 Jun 2015 20:38:59 +0300, Marko Rauhamaa writes:
>>Divide the number by 7 and you have your answer.
>>
>
> I am not sure that is what he wants -- If he gives us a start of Tuesday the
> 9th of June 2015 (yesterday) and an end of Thursday the 25th of June, that's
> 16 days.  But there is only one Monday-Friday week in there, the 14th-19th.
>
> So if the OP wants an answer of 1 for such data, he may be interested in
> the python calendar module https://docs.python.org/2/library/calendar.html
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> Laura
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Find the number of weeks with the above method, then

>>> import datetime
end_date = datetime.datetime(2012, 3, 23)  // whatever your end date is
if end_date.weekday() != 5:
    number_of_complete _weeks -= 1

weekday returns 0 for monday, so 5 for Saturday


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Joel Goldstick
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How to find number of whole weeks between dates? Sebastian M Cheung <minscheung@googlemail.com> - 2015-06-10 10:05 -0700
  Re: How to find number of whole weeks between dates? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-06-10 20:38 +0300
    Re: How to find number of whole weeks between dates? Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-06-10 20:43 +0300
    Re: How to find number of whole weeks between dates? Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-06-10 19:50 +0200
    Re: How to find number of whole weeks between dates? Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2015-06-10 14:07 -0400
    Re: How to find number of whole weeks between dates? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-06-10 20:48 +0100
  Re: How to find number of whole weeks between dates? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-06-10 11:42 -0600
  Re: How to find number of whole weeks between dates? Sebastian M Cheung <minscheung@googlemail.com> - 2015-06-10 13:11 -0700
    Re: How to find number of whole weeks between dates? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-06-10 21:26 +0100
    Re: How to find number of whole weeks between dates? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-06-10 14:33 -0600
    Re: How to find number of whole weeks between dates? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-06-10 21:19 -0600
    Re: How to find number of whole weeks between dates? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-06-11 13:36 +1000
    Re: How to find number of whole weeks between dates? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-06-10 21:45 -0600
  Re: How to find number of whole weeks between dates? Sebastian M Cheung <minscheung@googlemail.com> - 2015-06-10 19:01 -0700
    Re: How to find number of whole weeks between dates? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-06-10 21:35 -0600

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