Re: Getting last Friday’s date

[Jack Woehr <jwoehr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You can call Python into a CLLE from Richard Schoen's QSHoni.

$ python
Python 3.10.12 (main, Jun 11 2023, 05:26:28) [GCC 11.4.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> > > from datetime import date, timedelta
> > > friday = 4
> > > today = date.today()
> > > delta = today.weekday() - friday
> > > last_friday = today - timedelta((7 if delta < 0 else 0) + delta)
> > > print(last_friday)
2023-07-28
> > > today = date(2023, 8, 4)
> > > delta = today.weekday() - friday
> > > last_friday = today - timedelta((7 if delta < 0 else 0) + delta)
> > > print(last_friday)
2023-08-04
> > > today = date(2023, 8, 7)
> > > delta = today.weekday() - friday
> > > last_friday = today - timedelta((7 if delta < 0 else 0) + delta)
> > > print(last_friday)
2023-08-04

On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 1:30 PM Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I need to retrieve the date from last Friday.