title: Python 3.6 Weekday
body: <p>I have a combination date/time string 20180104 06:09:36.234 from which I want to find the weekday in python, expecting to get the result for for the date (which is 04 January 2018) as  "4" (ie Thursday) . Have searched far and wide to no avail.Can anyone help please?
  Thanks CJ</p>