How to display month name by number?

Question

I have a number represented month and i want to replace it with month name, date filter not working:

{{ monthnumber|date:"M" }}

I want to place two links - next month and previous month, but i have only number of month.

How to do it?

Answer 1

You'll need a custom template filter to convert the number into a month name. Pretty simple if you use the calendar module from the standard library:

import calendar

@register.filter
def month_name(month_number):
    return calendar.month_name[month_number]

Usage example: {{ 5|month_name }} will output May