On 13/04/2006 7:02 AM, John Salerno wrote: > 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?
Yes, No, Yes. You can answer such questions yourself very easily, e.g. in this case: >>> import calendar >>> calendar.month_abbr <calendar._localized_month instance at 0x00AE84E0> >>> list(calendar.month_abbr) ['', 'Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec'] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
