Generate dates and weekdays excluding weekends

apl-days.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

# simply do the following to generate dates for month 12
# curl -s apl-days.py | python - 12 2017

from datetime import date
from calendar import monthrange
from sys import argv

# check if any argument is provided
try:
    MONTH = int(argv[1])
    YEAR = int(argv[2])
# if not, generate dates for current month
except:
    MONTH = date.today().month
    YEAR = date.today().year

WEEKDAYS = ["Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday", "Sunday"]
WEEKENDS = ["Friday", "Saturday"]

for day in xrange(1, monthrange(YEAR, MONTH)[1] + 1):
    someday = date(YEAR, MONTH, day)
    weekday = WEEKDAYS[someday.weekday()]
    
    if weekday not in WEEKENDS: print someday, '(' + weekday + ')'