#!/usr/bin/env python
def test_for_day(target_day):
"""
Accepts a weekday and tests if today is that weekday.
"""
import time
# Get the date object of today's date:
todays_date = time.localtime().tm_wday
# Form a dictionary of the days of the week, starting on Monday
# since this is the time module's assumption:
date_dict = dict(enumerate('Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday'.split()))
# Find the weekday of today's date and compare to target:
if date_dict[todays_date] == target_day:
print "Today is the target (%s)." % target_day
else:
print "Today is %s, not %s." % (date_dict[todays_date], target_day)
