[Tutor] how to get the weeks of a month

[john fabiani]

On 3/4/19 1:15 PM, David Rock wrote:
>> On Mar 4, 2019, at 13:19, Alan Gauld via Tutor <tutor at python.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 04/03/2019 18:54, john fabiani wrote:
>>
>>> I need to print out the weeks of the month - given any month and any year.
>> I'm not totally clear how you define a week.
>>
>> EDIT: OK I see the comment at the end now.
>>
>>> For example this month would have:
>>>
>>> 3/1/2019 - 3/3/2019   # notice that this a short week
>>> 3/4/2019 - 3/10/2019
>>> 3/11/2019 - 3/17/2019
>>> 3/18/2019 - 3/24/2019
>>> 3/25/2019 - 3/31/2019  # also this can be a short week as in April 2019
>>> last week would be 4/29/2019 - 4/30-2019
> What I think he’s shooting for is something similar to cal output
>
> $ cal
>       March 2019
> Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
>                  1  2
>   3  4  5  6  7  8  9
> 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
> 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
> 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
> 31
>
>
>> So what I think you want is to
>>
>> start with the first day and print each day up to Sunday.
>> Newline
>> print the current date up to sunday
>> newline
>> repeat until you run out of days in the month.
>>
>>
>>>>> import calendar as cal
>>>>> cal.monthcalendar(2019,3)
>> [[0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10], [11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,
>> 17], [18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24], [25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31]]
>> That looks close to what you want?
>
> That seems close, but off by a day?
>
>
> —
> David Rock
> david at graniteweb.com
I knew there was a simple why to get it done!  But where is it off my a day?

Johnf