[Tutor] Error while using calendar module in Python 2.7

[Alan Gauld]

"ranjan das" <ranjand2005 at gmail.com> wrote

> The following code works fine in Python 2.6 but throws up an error 
> in Python
> 2.7. Can anyone please say why?
>
> import datetime
> import calendar
>
> while monday.weekday() != calendar.MONDAY:

where does 'monday' come from?
Can you send a minimal example that could actually run that shjows the 
error?
This is obviously just a code fragment.

> Error:
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "C:\Python27\Foursoft\calendar.py", line 33, in <module>
>    while friday.weekday() != calendar.FRIDAY:
> AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'FRIDAY'

The obvious solution is that calendar has changed between 2.6 and 2.7
but looking on v3.1(I don;t have 2.7 installed) it looks the same 
there.
Certainly the day constants are still there.

HTH,


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