doubledate.sow#

doubledate.sow(date: date, offset: int = 0, weekday: str = 'MON') → date#

Returns the start of the week, i.e. the first date on or before the given date whose weekday is equal to the the weekday argument, and offset by a given number of weeks.

Weekday must be one of 'MON', 'TUE', 'WED', 'THU', 'FRI', 'SAT' or 'SUN'.

Parameters:

date (datetime.date) – the date from which to determine the start of the week
offset (int, optional) – the number of weeks from which to offset the most recent start of the week (default is 0)
weekday (str, optional) – the weekday which defines the start of the week (default is "MON")

Returns:

The start of the week

Return type:

datetime.date

Examples

>>> today = datetime.date(2020, 1, 15) #Wednesday
>>> sow(today)
datetime.date(2020, 1, 13) #last Monday

>>> sow(today, 1)
datetime.date(2020, 1, 20) #following Monday

>>> sow(today, weekday="WED")
datetime.date(2020, 1, 15) #today

>>> sow(today, weekday="THU")
datetime.date(2020, 1, 9) #last Thursday