Get month name from number

Question

How can I get the month name from the month number?

For instance, if I have 3, I want to return march

date.tm_month() 

How to get the string march?

Answer 1

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.