from datetime import datetime date_str='10-12-20' datetime_object = datetime.strptime(date_str, '%m-%d-%y') datetime_object.weekday()
import datetime date = datetime.datetime.now() ''' return datetime object Attributes: year month day hour minute second microsecond date.weekday() return the weekday from 0 to 6 where Monday = 0 '''
df['date_time'].dt.dayofweek #gives only the index(0-monday,6-sunday) df['date_time'].dt.weekday_name #gives the day