how to get "if suite" along with my "else suite"-CodePudding

I have written these simple lines of code to get the current day name, and then using if/else statement wanted to check if it is the current day which is Sunday,and I should receive my if suite , because today is exactly Sunday, but the terminal gives me the else suite. I was wonder what is wrong with my code:

import datetime
now= datetime.datetime.now()
weeks=["Saturday","Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday"]
print ("Today is {}, So:".format(now.strftime("%A")))
if now in weeks:
    print("Gossh, You are now in your school days..")
else:
    print("rest and recover!")

and the result is:

Today is Sunday, So:
rest and recover!

CodePudding user response：

You are testing if now (a datetime object) is in weeks (string objects). now is not in weeks. No datetime object is in weeks

The formatted day name (now.strftime("%A")) might be, but you're not testing that.

from datetime import datetime

now = datetime.now()
dayname = now.strftime("%A")
weekdays = ["Saturday", "Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday"]

print(f"Today is {dayname}, so:")
if dayname in weekdays:
    print("Gossh, You are now in your school days...")
else:
    print("rest and recover!")

That being said, both weeks and weekdays is a bad name for a variable that contains this particular list of day names. Find a better variable name.