Python how to return date as words?

Question

I've got a date in the format day=30, month=11, year=2014. How can I use python to return this in a worded format? Example Sunday 30th November 2014. I can't find any datetime format that this works for...

Answer 1

You can use the following format for strftime:

In [1]: from datetime import date

In [2]: date(day=30, month=11, year=2014).strftime('%A %d %B %Y')
Out[2]: 'Sunday 30 November 2014'

Adding the proper suffix to the day number is more complicated:

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