> I kept getting a Python error for the following line:
>
> month = m[webMonth]
>
> I changed it to month = month_numbers[webMonth]
>
> and that did the trick.
Sorry for the confusion. Often when I'm testing these things,
I'll be lazy and create an alias to save me the typing. In this
case, I had aliased the month_numbers mapping to "m":
>>> m = month_numbers
and it slipped into my pasted answer email. You correctly fixed
the problem. The purpose of the mapping is simply to resolve the
month name to the month number so that the month number can be
used. Depending on how predictable the website's date string
will be, you can use
month_numbers = dict([(date(2006, m, 1).strftime("%b").upper(),
m) for m in range(1,13)])
and then use
month = month_numbers[webMonth.upper()]
or
month = month_numbers[webMonth[0:3].upper()]
depending on whether the website might return full month names or
not.
-tkc
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