Answer to Question #256937 in Python for Raju

Question

Weekends

Given two dates D1 and D2,write a program to count the number of Saturday's and Sundays from D1 to D2(including D1 and D2). The date in string format is like "8 Feb 2021".

Input

The first line of input will contain date D1 in the string format.

The second line of input will contain date D2 in the string format.

Sample input 1

25 Jan 2021

14 Feb 2021

Sample output 1

Saturday: 3

Sunday: 3

Sample input 2

25 May 2019

22 Dec 2021

Sample output 2

Saturday:135

Sunday: 135

Answer 1

from datetime import datetime, timedelta




d1 = datetime.strptime(input(), '%d %b %Y')
d2 = datetime.strptime(input(), '%d %b %Y')
sat = 0
sun = 0
while d1 <= d2:
    if d1.weekday() == 6:
        sat += 1
    elif d1.weekday() == 0:
        sun += 1
    d1 += timedelta(days=1)
print(f"Saturday: {sat}\nSunday: {sun}")