day_guess.py

import random
import calendar
import datetime


try:
    input = raw_input
except NameError:
    pass


def random_date(start_year, end_year):
    """Generate a random date between `start` and `end`"""
    # Based on https://stackoverflow.com/a/8170651
    start = datetime.datetime(start_year, 1, 1)
    end = datetime.datetime(end_year, 12, 31, 23, 59, 59)
    return (start + datetime.timedelta(
        # Get a random amount of seconds between `start` and `end`
        seconds=random.randint(0, int((end - start).total_seconds())),
    )).date()


def get_weekday_name(date):
    return calendar.day_name[date.weekday()].lower()


def check(date, user_input):
    weekday_name = get_weekday_name(date)
    return len(user_input) >= 3 and weekday_name.startswith(user_input.lower())


try:
    guess_date = random_date(1900, 2099)
    user_input = input(str('[Guess the week day] {}: '.format(guess_date)))

    if check(guess_date, user_input):
        print('YEAH!')
    else:
        print('WRONG!! correct is: {}, keep training :)'
              .format(get_weekday_name(guess_date)))
except KeyboardInterrupt:
    print('')