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") # 'December'
mydate.strftime("%b") # 'dec'

Answer 2

This Is What I Would Do:

from datetime import *

months = ["Unknown",
          "January",
          "Febuary",
          "March",
          "April",
          "May",
          "June",
          "July",
          "August",
          "September",
          "October",
          "November",
          "December"]

now = (datetime.now())
year = (now.year)
month = (months[now.month])
print(month)

It Outputs:

>>> September

(This Was The Real Date When I Wrote This)

Answer 3

I'll offer this in case (like me) you have a column of month numbers in a dataframe:

df['monthName'] = df['monthNumer'].apply(lambda x: calendar.month_name[x])