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user1976568
user1976568

Reputation: 43

wrong week number in 2013

i'm using my backup script since 2011 and had no problems at all. But since start of 2013 I'm getting problem with the correct week number.

Python 2.7.2 (default, Jun 12 2011, 15:08:59) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
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>>> import time
>>> time.strftime("%W", time.localtime())
'02'

But we have week number 3

Am i doing something wrong? It was working till 2013.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 422

Answers (2)

root
root

Reputation: 80346

All days in a new year preceding the first Monday are considered to be in week 0.docs

Take a look at the calendar:

import calendar    
print calendar.month(2013,1)

Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su
    1  2  3  4  5  6
 7  8  9 10 11 12 13
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
28 29 30 31

In the standard library you can use use datetime.isocalendar():

from datetime import datetime
datetime.date(datetime.now()).isocalendar()[1]

Upvotes: 5

user2665694
user2665694

Reputation:

"""Week number of the year (Monday as the first day of the week) as a decimal number [00,53]. All days in a new year preceding the first Monday are considered to be in week 0."""

What you are looking for is the value for the week number as defined through the ISO standard.

Look at the isoweek module.

>>> from isoweek import Week
>>> Week.thisweek()
isoweek.Week(2013, 3)
>>> Week.thisweek().week
3

Upvotes: 5

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