BEGINNER: converting integer to short month name?

[Erik Max Francis]

Matt Gerrans wrote:

> Looks like it would be
>    calendar.month_abbr[ the_month + 1 ]
> 
> Interestingly, calendar.month_abbr[ 0 ] is 'Saturday'.   Hmm...

Python 2.2.2 (#2, Oct 14 2002, 17:32:20) 
[GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)] on linux2
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>>> import calendar
>>> calendar.month_abbr[0]
''

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