I have defined 2 variables , 1 for Friday and other for rest of weekdays. However when I match these two with the website date(which is 'today - 3' for Monday and 'today -1' )it shows the error as variable not defined. Below is code for the same.

import datetime


d = datetime.date.today()

if d.weekday() == 0:
    tdelta = datetime.timedelta(days=3)
    friday = d - tdelta
    print(friday)


elif d.weekday() in range(1,5):
    tdelta1 = datetime.timedelta(days=1)
    prev_day = d - tdelta1
    print(prev_day)

data_date = new.date()  # data_date is the date fetched from website
        if data_date == friday:
            print("Data as on", friday, "for Race Horses")
        elif data_date == prev_day:
            print("Data as on", prev_day, "for Race Horses")
        else:
            print("Data update required.")

I have defined 2 variables , 1 for Friday and other for rest of weekdays. However when I match these two with the website date(which is 'today - 3' for Monday and 'today -1' )it shows the error as variable not defined. Below is code for the same.

import datetime


d = datetime.date.today()

if d.weekday() == 0:
    tdelta = datetime.timedelta(days=3)
    friday = d - tdelta
    print(friday)


elif d.weekday() in range(1,5):
    tdelta1 = datetime.timedelta(days=1)
    prev_day = d - tdelta1
    print(prev_day)

data_date = new.date()  # data_date is the date fetched from website
        if data_date == friday:
            print("Data as on", friday, "for page")
        elif data_date == prev_day:
            print("Data as on", prev_day, "for page")
        else:
            print("Data update required.")

This is for reporting bugs in the Python interpreter and standard library, not for asking for help with bugs in your own code.

The code you show contains a syntax error (some of the indentation is wrong) and at least one undefined variable, "new". The traceback you got would have shown you that:

py> data_date = new.date()  # data_date is the date fetched from website
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'new' is not defined


You need to define "new" before you can use it. Since this is not a bug in Python, I'm closing this. If you disagree, please read this website:

http://sscce.org/

copy and paste the full exception you get, and be prepared to explain why it is a bug in the interpreter rather than in your code.