[Tutor] Converting month names to abbreviated form

[Gus Tabares]

Ah, yes. So foolish of me. Thank you...


Gus

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Peters [mailto:tim.peters at gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 11:10 PM
To: Gus Tabares
Cc: tutor at python.org
Subject: Re: [Tutor] Converting month names to abbreviated form


[Gus Tabares]
> Are there any known routines for converting month names to their 
> abbreviated form (i.e., December->Dec) ?

If you're thinking about American month names, the abbreviation of a
month name is just its first 3 letters.

>>> 'December'[:3]
'Dec'
>>> 'January'[:3]
'Jan'
>>>

etc.