Get month name from number

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How can I get the month name from the month number   For instance  if I have 3  I want to return march   date tm month     How to get the string march

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Some good answers already make use of calendar but the effect of setting the locale hasn't been mentioned yet.

Calendar set month names according to the current locale, for exemple in French:

import locale
import calendar

locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'fr_FR')

assert calendar.month_name[1] == 'janvier'
assert calendar.month_abbr[1] == 'jan'

If you plan on using setlocale in your code, make sure to read the tips and caveats and extension writer sections from the documentation. The example shown here is not representative of how it should be used. In particular, from these two sections:

It is generally a bad idea to call setlocale() in some library routine, since as a side effect it affects the entire program […]

Extension modules should never call setlocale() […]

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Calendar API  From that you can see that calendar month name 3  would return March  and the array index of 0 is the empty string  so there s no need to worry about zero-indexing either

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This is not so helpful if you need to just know the month name for a given number  1 - 12   as the current day doesn t matter    calendar month name i    or   calendar month abbr i    are more useful here    Here is an example   import calendar  for month idx in range 1  13       print  calendar month name month idx       print  calendar month abbr month idx       print        Sample output   January Jan  February Feb  March Mar

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For arbitaray range of month numbers   month integer range 0 100  map lambda x  calendar month name x 12 start  month integer    will yield correct list  Adjust start-parameter from where January begins in the month-integer list

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To print all months at once   import datetime   monthint   list range 1 13     for X in monthint       month   datetime date 1900  X   1  strftime   B        print month

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I created my own function converting numbers to their corresponding month   def month name  number       if number    1          return  January      elif number    2          return  February      elif number    3          return  March      elif number    4          return  April      elif number    5          return  May      elif number    6          return  June      elif number    7          return  July      elif number    8          return  August      elif number    9          return  September      elif number    10          return  October      elif number    11          return  November      elif number    12          return  December    Then I can call the function  For example   print  month name  12     Outputs    gt  gt  gt  December

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8 1  datetime     Basic date and time types     Python 2 7 17 documentation https   docs python org 2 library datetime html strftime-strptime-behavior  A list of all the strftime arguments   Names of months and nice stuff like formatting left zero fill   Read the full page for stuff like rules for  naive  arguments   Here is the list in brief   a  Sun  Mon       Sat    A  Sunday  Monday       Saturday    w  Weekday as number  where 0 is Sunday    d  Day of the month 01  02       31   b  Jan  Feb       Dec   B  January  February       December   m  Month number as a zero-padded 01  02       12   y  2 digit year zero-padded 00  01       99   Y  4 digit Year 1970  1988  2001  2013   H  Hour  24-hour clock  zero-padded 00  01       23   I  Hour  12-hour clock  zero-padded 01  02       12   p  AM or PM    M  Minute zero-padded 00  01       59   S  Second zero-padded 00  01       59   f  Microsecond zero-padded 000000  000001       999999   z  UTC offset in the form  HHMM or -HHMM    0000  -0400   1030   Z  Time zone name  UTC  EST  CST   j  Day of the year zero-padded 001  002       366   U  Week number of the year zero padded  Days before the first Sunday are week 0   W  Week number of the year  Monday as first day    c  Locale   s date and time representation  Tue Aug 16 21 30 00 1988   x  Locale   s date representation  08 16 1988  en US    X  Locale   s time representation  21 30 00       literal     character

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import datetime mydate   datetime datetime now   mydate strftime   B      December  mydate strftime   b      dec

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import datetime mydate   datetime datetime now   mydate strftime   B     Returns  December  Some more info on the Python doc website     EDIT   great comment from  GiriB  You can also use  b which returns the short notation for month name   mydate strftime   b     For the example above  it would return Dec

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This Is What I Would Do   from datetime import    months     Unknown              January              Febuary              March              April              May              June              July              August              September              October              November              December    now    datetime now    year    now year  month    months now month   print month    It Outputs    gt  gt  gt  September    This Was The Real Date When I Wrote This

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import datetime  monthinteger   4  month   datetime date 1900  monthinteger  1  strftime   B    print month      April

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I ll offer this in case  like me  you have a column of month numbers in a dataframe   df  monthName     df  monthNumer   apply lambda x  calendar month name x

[python] Get month name from number

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