Get the english day from a date

date2day.py

# This example shows for the current date. Modify it to get the day for 
# any particular date of the format 
# date(year, month, day)

from datetime import date
import calendar

def sample_date2day():
    my_date = date.today()
#     my_date = date(year, month, day)
    print(my_date)
    print(my_date.weekday()) # Monday is 0 and Sunday is 6
    print(calendar.day_name[my_date.weekday()])
sample_date2day()