On Sep 17, 10:20 pm, Keo Sophon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fredrik Lundh wrote: > > Henry Chang wrote: > > >> Instead of getting integers with weekday(), Monday == 0 ... Sunday == > >> 6; is there a way to get the actual names, such as "Monday ... > >> Sunday"? I would like to do this without creating a data mapping. :) > > > if you have a datetime or date object, you can use strftime with the > > appropriate formatting code. see the library reference for details. > > > if you have the weekday number, you can use the calender module: > > > >>> import calendar > > >>> calendar.day_name[0] > > 'Monday' > > > (the latter also contains abbreviated day names, month names, and a > > bunch of other potentially useful functions and mappings.) > > > </F> > > > -- > >http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > Hi, > > I've tried calendar.month_name[0], it displays empty string, while > calendar.month_name[1] is "January"? Why does calendar.month_name's > index not start with index 0 as calendar.day_name?
Because there's no month 0? And technically, weeks begin on Sunday, not Monday, but business likes to think of Monday as day 0 of the week and it doesn't conflict with any prior date format. > > Thanks, > Sophon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
