While using Python 2.7, I wrote as follows to get a short description of the day. I am currently using 3.6. What would you recommend instead of mx.DateTime to do this?

import mx.DateTime

def func(dateVal, format):
    day = ''
    shortDesc = ['Mon', 'Tue', 'Wed', 'Thu', 'Fri', 'Sat', 'Sun']
    if format == '%d.%m.%Y':
        try:
            dateVal = mx.DateTime.DateTime(int(dateVal[6:10]), int(dateVal[3:5]), int(tarih[0:2]))
            day = shortDesc[dateVal.day_of_week]
        except:
            pass
    return day

CodePudding user response：

Why not use the built-in datetime in both Python 2.7 and 3.6?

A couple of notes:

• Parse using strptime, rather than manually breaking up the string and converting to integer
• The day_of_week almost certainly starts with 'Sun' as 0
• You can use the strftime date formatting character %a for the abbreviated weekday name, although that will be the local one (rather than necessarily English)
• Avoid using except: pass; that will hide a lot of errors that you probably do want to handle or fix or at least know about. Instead, catch specific problems and handle them appropriately (whether that's return '' or some other logic)

import datetime

def func(date, format):
    the_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(date, format)
    day = the_date.strftime('%a')
    return day

Or, in one line:

import datetime

def func(date, format):
    return datetime.datetime.strptime(date, format).strftime('%a')