# 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)])