Re: How to Determine Name of the Day in the Week

2008-09-18 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Keo Sophon wrote: I've tried calendar.month_name[0], it displays empty string, while calendar.month_name[1] is January? Why does calendar.month_name's index not start with index 0 as calendar.day_name? the lists are set up to match the values used by the time and datetime modules; see e.g.

Re: How to Determine Name of the Day in the Week

2008-09-18 Thread Mensanator
On Sep 18, 12:01 am, Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:34:02 -0700, Mensanator wrote: And technically, weeks begin on Sunday, not Monday, but business likes to think of Monday as day 0 of the week and it doesn't conflict with any prior date format. There's no

Re: How to Determine Name of the Day in the Week

2008-09-17 Thread Keo Sophon
Fredrik Lundh wrote: Henry Chang wrote: Instead of getting integers with weekday(), Monday == 0 ... Sunday == 6; is there a way to get the actual names, such as Monday ... Sunday? I would like to do this without creating a data mapping. :) if you have a datetime or date object, you can use

Re: How to Determine Name of the Day in the Week

2008-09-17 Thread Mensanator
On Sep 17, 10:20 pm, Keo Sophon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fredrik Lundh wrote: Henry Chang wrote: Instead of getting integers with weekday(), Monday == 0 ... Sunday == 6; is there a way to get the actual names, such as Monday ... Sunday? I would like to do this without creating a data

Re: How to Determine Name of the Day in the Week

2008-09-17 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:34:02 -0700, Mensanator wrote: And technically, weeks begin on Sunday, not Monday, but business likes to think of Monday as day 0 of the week and it doesn't conflict with any prior date format. There's no technically about it. It's an arbitrary starting point, and

Re: How to Determine Name of the Day in the Week

2008-09-12 Thread Tino Wildenhain
Henry Chang wrote: Instead of getting integers with weekday(), Monday == 0 ... Sunday == 6; is there a way to get the actual names, such as Monday ... Sunday? I would like to do this without creating a data mapping. :) The 'actual names' in which language? Chinese, Russian, French, ... :)

How to Determine Name of the Day in the Week

2008-09-11 Thread Henry Chang
Instead of getting integers with weekday(), Monday == 0 ... Sunday == 6; is there a way to get the actual names, such as Monday ... Sunday? I would like to do this without creating a data mapping. :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: How to Determine Name of the Day in the Week

2008-09-11 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Henry Chang wrote: Instead of getting integers with weekday(), Monday == 0 ... Sunday == 6; is there a way to get the actual names, such as Monday ... Sunday? I would like to do this without creating a data mapping. :) if you have a datetime or date object, you can use strftime with the

Re: How to Determine Name of the Day in the Week

2008-09-11 Thread Henry Chang
Awesome, that worked. Thanks so much! On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Henry Chang wrote: Instead of getting integers with weekday(), Monday == 0 ... Sunday == 6; is there a way to get the actual names, such as Monday ... Sunday? I would like to do