I've been trying to come up with a good algorithm for determining the starting and ending dates given the week number (as defined by the strftime("%W") function).
My preference would be for a Sunday->Saturday range rather than a Monday->Sunday range. Thus, >>> startDate, stopDate = weekBoundaries(2006, 23) would yield a start-date of June 4, 2006 and an end-date of June 10, 2006 in this hypothetical function (as strftime("%W") for today, June 9th, 2006 returns 23). I've posted my first round of code below, but I'm having problems with dates early in 2005, as the tests show. Any thoughts/improvements/suggestions would be most welcome. Thanks, -tkc from datetime import date, timedelta from time import strptime DEBUG = False tests = [ #test date start end (date(2006,1,1), (date(2006,1,1), date(2006,1,7))), (date(2006,1,2), (date(2006,1,1), date(2006,1,7))), (date(2006,1,3), (date(2006,1,1), date(2006,1,7))), (date(2006,1,4), (date(2006,1,1), date(2006,1,7))), (date(2006,1,5), (date(2006,1,1), date(2006,1,7))), (date(2006,1,6), (date(2006,1,1), date(2006,1,7))), (date(2006,1,7), (date(2006,1,1), date(2006,1,7))), (date(2006,1,8), (date(2006,1,8), date(2006,1,14))), (date(2005,1,1), (date(2004,12,26), date(2005,1,1))), (date(2005,1,2), (date(2005,1,2), date(2005,1,8))), ] def weekBoundaries(year, week): startOfYear = date(year, 1, 1) now = startOfYear + timedelta(weeks=week) # isoweekday() % 7 returns Sun=0 ... Sat=6 sun = now - timedelta(days=now.isoweekday() % 7) sat = sun + timedelta(days=6) if DEBUG: print "DEBUG: now = %s/%s" % (now, now.strftime("%a")) print "DEBUG: sun = %s/%s" % (sun, sun.strftime("%a")) print "DEBUG: sat = %s/%s" % (sat, sat.strftime("%a")) return sun, sat for test, expectedResult in tests: print "Testing %s" % test year = test.year # jigger it so that %W is Sun->Sat rather than Mon->Sun weekNum = int((test + timedelta(days=1)).strftime("%W")) - 1 results = weekBoundaries(year, weekNum) passed = (expectedResult == results) print "Week#%s: %s" % (weekNum, passed) print "=" * 50 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list