How To Get The Day Of The Week In A Variable?

[saifee 1]

I want to store today's day for eg: "Friday" in a variable from the system date/time.

 

How to do this?

 

Thanks,

Saifuddin

 

[pash 504]

try

http://wiki.ubotstudio.com/wiki/Run_python_with_result

alert($run python with result("import datetime

mydate = datetime.date(1985,3, 13)  #year, month, day
mydate.strftime(\"%A\")"))

[saifee 1]

Thanks, its working with a static date.

 

I want to run the same code but with the current system date and get the day of the week.

 

Pls help.

[pash 504]

use

alert($run python with result("from datetime import date
import calendar
my_date = date.today()
calendar.day_name[my_date.weekday()]"))

 

[saifee 1]

Thanks very much for the help :-)