Converting month by create dictionary of Month name is less efective. Here are how to convert month name into number in Pythonic way :
1 2 3 | from time import strptime month_name = ‘Jan’ month_number = strptime(month_name, ‘%b’).tm_mon |
Also, you can convert month number into month name by :
1 2 3 4 5 | from time import strftime from datetime import datetime month_number = 1 formated_month = datetime(2012, int(month_number), 1) selected_month = formated_month.strftime("%b") |
Basically, we should build datetime format and pass into strftime(“month-format”).
You can pick random year and day value because month always same in every years right?
For more complete date time format which may you need :
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 | %a Locale’s abbreviated weekday name. %A Locale’s full weekday name. %b Locale’s abbreviated month name. %B Locale’s full month name. %c Locale’s appropriate date and time representation. %d Day of the month as a decimal number [01,31]. %f Microsecond as a decimal number [0,999999], zero-padded on the left (1) %H Hour (24-hour clock) as a decimal number [00,23]. %I Hour (12-hour clock) as a decimal number [01,12]. %j Day of the year as a decimal number [001,366]. %m Month as a decimal number [01,12]. %M Minute as a decimal number [00,59]. %p Locale’s equivalent of either AM or PM. (2) %S Second as a decimal number [00,61]. (3) %U Week number of the year (Sunday as the first day of the week) as a decimal number [00,53]. All days in a new year preceding the first Sunday are considered to be in week 0. (4) %w Weekday as a decimal number [0(Sunday),6]. %W Week number of the year (Monday as the first day of the week) as a decimal number [00,53]. All days in a new year preceding the first Monday are considered to be in week 0. (4) %x Locale’s appropriate date representation. %X Locale’s appropriate time representation. %y Year without century as a decimal number [00,99]. %Y Year with century as a decimal number. %z UTC offset in the form +HHMM or -HHMM (empty string if the the object is naive). (5) %Z Time zone name (empty string if the object is naive). %% A literal ‘%’ character. |