如果日期是datetime对象，这是一个解决方案。

import datetime
def dow(date):
    days=["Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday","Sunday"]
    dayNumber=date.weekday()
    print days[dayNumber]

要让星期天1点到星期六7点，这是解决问题的最简单方法：

datetime.date.today().toordinal()%7 + 1

所有这些：

import datetime

today = datetime.date.today()
sunday = today - datetime.timedelta(today.weekday()+1)

for i in range(7):
    tmp_date = sunday + datetime.timedelta(i)
    print tmp_date.toordinal()%7 + 1, '==', tmp_date.strftime('%A')

输出：

1 == Sunday
2 == Monday
3 == Tuesday
4 == Wednesday
5 == Thursday
6 == Friday
7 == Saturday

使用weekday（）：

>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.today()
datetime.datetime(2012, 3, 23, 23, 24, 55, 173504)
>>> datetime.datetime.today().weekday()
4

根据文档：

以整数形式返回星期几，其中星期一为0，星期日为6。

如果你想用英语约会：

from datetime import datetime
datetime.today().strftime('%A')
'Wednesday'

阅读更多信息：https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html#strftime-结构时间行为

如果您有理由避免使用datetime模块，那么此函数将起作用。

注：从儒略历到公历的变化被认为发生在1582年。如果您感兴趣的日历并非如此，那么如果年份>1582，则相应地更改行。

def dow(year,month,day):
    """ day of week, Sunday = 1, Saturday = 7
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeller%27s_congruence """
    m, q = month, day
    if m == 1:
        m = 13
        year -= 1
    elif m == 2:
        m = 14
        year -= 1
    K = year % 100    
    J = year // 100
    f = (q + int(13*(m + 1)/5.0) + K + int(K/4.0))
    fg = f + int(J/4.0) - 2 * J
    fj = f + 5 - J
    if year > 1582:
        h = fg % 7
    else:
        h = fj % 7
    if h == 0:
        h = 7
    return h

import datetime
import calendar

day, month, year = map(int, input().split())
my_date = datetime.date(year, month, day)
print(calendar.day_name[my_date.weekday()])

输出示例

08 05 2015
Friday