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python-dateutil - RRule - Different times for different weekdays

I'm using rrule as shown here: https://labix.org/python-dateutil#head-470fa22b2db72000d7abe698a5783a46b0731b57

I'm wondering if it somehow possible to create a rule where different times are specified for different weekdays e.g. WEEKLY Thursday 6pm and Saturday 10am

Hope someone can help :)

Solution

  • A single rrule can not specify both pairs of days and hours, but you could use a rrule.ruleset to combine rrules:

    import datetime as DT
import dateutil.rrule as RR
today = DT.date.today()

aset = RR.rruleset()
aset.rrule(RR.rrule(RR.WEEKLY, byweekday=RR.TH, byhour=18, count=3, dtstart=today))
aset.rrule(RR.rrule(RR.WEEKLY, byweekday=RR.SA, byhour=10, count=3, dtstart=today))
for date in aset:
    print(date)

    yields

    2015-03-26 18:00:00
2015-03-28 10:00:00
2015-04-02 18:00:00
2015-04-04 10:00:00
2015-04-09 18:00:00
2015-04-11 10:00:00