pandas - Python - Get date from day of week, year, and week number

Question

I have: a week number a day of week a year I want to find the date from that. How to do it in Python?

e.g. 2020 week1 Saturday Expected output 01/04/2020

Answer 1

you can use ISO 8601 year and -week directives:

from datetime import datetime

s = '2020 week1 Saturday'

dt = datetime.strptime(s, '%G week%V %A')       

print(dt.strftime('%m/%d/%Y'))
# 01/04/2020

• docs: strftime() and strptime() Format Codes