How to get the weekday from a datetime object

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from datetime import datetime

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help(datetime.weekday)

Help on method_descriptor:

weekday(...)
    Return the day of the week represented by the date.
    Monday == 0 ... Sunday == 6

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today = datetime.today()
#setting today as a datetime object with today's date

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datetime.weekday(today)
#today is Monday

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0