How do I assign a day of the week to a number using a function in Python Pyscripter?

Question

Assume the days of the week are numbers 0,1,2,3,4,5,6 from Sunday to Saturday. Write a function which is given the day number, and it returns the day name (a String). Make sure to use a return statement in your function. Call your program NumToDay.

Answer 1

In R a quick and dirty approach would be:

weekdays<-function(x) {

  if (x > 6 | x <0) stop (" invalid entry, number should be an integer between 0 and 6")

  days<-c("Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday")

  return(days[x+1])

}

 

So calling weekdays(0) will produce "Sunday"

 

 

Answer 2

You can use an if-else if statement or a switch statement.  Or you can set up an array of 7 items which contain these days of the week, and return the correct array entry.