Python is a great language for doing data analysis, primarily because of the fantastic ecosystem of data-centric python packages. Pandas is one of those packages and makes importing and analyzing data much easier.
Pandas Period.dayofweek attribute returns the day of the week for the given Period object. It returns an integer value.
Syntax : Period.dayofweek
Parameters : None
Return : day of the week
Example #1: Use Period.dayofweek attribute to find the day of the week in the given Period object.
# importing pandas as pd import pandas as pd   # Create the Period object prd = pd.Period(freq ='D', year = 2001, month = 1, day = 21)   # Print the Period object print(prd) |
Output :
Now we will use the Period.dayofweek attribute to find the day of the week in the given object.
# return the day value prd.dayofweek |
Output :
As we can see in the output, the Period.dayofweek attribute has returned 6 indicating that the following date was the 6th day of the week.
Example #2: Use Period.dayofweek attribute to find the day of the week in the given Period object.
# importing pandas as pd import pandas as pd   # Create the Period object prd = pd.Period(freq ='Q', year = 2006, quarter = 1)   # Print the object print(prd) |
Output :
Now we will use the Period.dayofweek attribute to find the day of the week in the given object.
# return the day value prd.dayofweek |
Output :
As we can see in the output, the Period.dayofweek attribute has returned 4 indicating that the following date was the 4th day of the week.
