Merge pull request #750 from Monsieurvishal/patch-1

get the input from the user

Author: geekcomputers

Day_of_week.py

@@ -1,14 +1,23 @@
 # Python program to Find day of 
 # the week for a given date 
+import re #regular expressions
 import calendar  #module of python to provide useful fucntions related to calendar
 import datetime # module of python to get the date and time 
 
+def process_date(user_input):
+    user_input=re.sub(r"/", " ", user_input) #substitute / with space
+    user_input=re.sub(r"-", " ", user_input) #substitute - with space 
+    return user_input
 
-def findDay(date):
+def find_day(date):
     born = datetime.datetime.strptime(date, '%d %m %Y').weekday() #this statement returns an integer corresponding to the day of the week
     return (calendar.day_name[born]) #this statement returns the corresponding day name to the integer generated in the previous statement
 
+#To get the input from the user
+#User may type 1/2/1999 or 1-2-1999
+#To overcome those we have to process user input and make it standard to accept as defined by  calender and time module
+user_input=str(input("Enter date     "))
+date=process_date(user_input)
+print("Day on " +user_input + "  is "+ find_day(date) )
+
 
-# Driver program 
-date = '03 02 2019' #this is the input date
-print(findDay(date))  # here we print the final output after calling the fucntion findday