Get month name from number

This is not so helpful if you need to just know the month name for a given number (1 - 12), as the current day doesn't matter.

calendar.month_name[i]

or

calendar.month_abbr[i]

are more useful here.

Here is an example:

import calendar

for month_idx in range(1, 13):
    print (calendar.month_name[month_idx])
    print (calendar.month_abbr[month_idx])
    print ("")

Sample output:

January
Jan

February
Feb

March
Mar

...

Calendar API

From that you can see that calendar.month_name[3] would return March, and the array index of 0 is the empty string, so there's no need to worry about zero-indexing either.

import datetime
mydate = datetime.datetime.now()
mydate.strftime("%B")

Returns: December

Some more info on the Python doc website

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[EDIT : great comment from @GiriB] You can also use %b which returns the short notation for month name.

mydate.strftime("%b")

For the example above, it would return Dec.

import datetime

monthinteger = 4

month = datetime.date(1900, monthinteger, 1).strftime('%B')

print month

April