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user1887183
user1887183

Reputation: 91

How to convert a month number into a month name in python

How do you get a list to correspond with a user input. If I had a list like:

month_lst = ['January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July',
              'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December']

How do I get an input of 1 to return 'January' as the answer?

input('Enter the number to be converted: ')

Also the input needs to check with the list to make sure it is within 1-12, so inputing 15 would read an error message.

Upvotes: 9

Views: 18743

Answers (4)

user1012513
user1012513

Reputation: 2355

I know it is very old question. But have I found a very simple solution.

import calendar

def get_month_name(month_number):
    try:
        return calendar.month_name[month_number]
    except IndexError:
        print("'{}' is not a valid month number".format(month_number))

Upvotes: 1

shannonman
shannonman

Reputation: 861

The calendar library can provide what you want, see the documentation at http://docs.python.org/2/library/calendar.html 

calendar.month_name[month_number] #for the full name

or

calendar.month_abbr[month_number] #for the short name

Upvotes: 15

Hugo
Hugo

Reputation: 11

month_lst = ['January', 'Feburary', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 
              'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December']
try:
    month = int(input('Enter the number to be converted: '))
    if month < 1 or month > 12:
        raise ValueError
    else:
        print(month_lst[month - 1])
except ValueError:
    print("Invalid number")

Upvotes: 1

paxdiablo
paxdiablo

Reputation: 881303

You can get input from the user with input() or raw_input(), depending on your python version (the latter for Python 2.x).

You can turn the string that gives you into an integer with int().

Finally, you can look up the strings in your list with month_lst[some_integer] where some_integer is one less than the integer you got from the user.

Upvotes: 0

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