Bill wrote: > def month_number(monthabbr): > """Return the month number for monthabbr; e.g. "Jan" -> 1.""" > for index, day in enumerate(calendar.month_abbr): > if day == monthabbr: > return index > > which works well enough but isn't very clever. I'm pretty new to > Python; what am I missing here? > Thanks -- Bill.
I'm curious, does that really work, or is there a problem with the first index being 0? Or is that avoided somehow? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list