It's just inelegant. A better approach would be an array where you return the content at the index.

If you are going this route why not use a switch?

Or just an array.

python have no switch

I had the same question. I had these thoughts:

It looks like python, so the semi-colons are unnecessary.

If you want to rid yourself of datetime for whatever reason, implement it as a list, returning name_of_day[x], so that you can start the week on a Sunday(=0) easily if you want to.

Beyond that, I'm stuck too :-(

Two words: mapping structures.

Python ships with a standard datetime class which is powerful enough to represent time, and there is a ubiquitous module, dateutil, which extends it to do nearly anything people need to do with dates regularly.

Additionally, one would normally use an array of names and index it:

  days = ["Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Sat", "Sun"]
  that_day_you_wanted = days[x]