My implied solution is incorrect.
I should start with using the date type and, for example, dateutil package for date manipulation and building the dictionary of needed dates/months. And only after that, map against the fut_suffix. On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 12:56 AM, Andrew Z <form...@gmail.com> wrote: > well, yeah, it's unidirectional and final destination is always the same > and have little to do with the question. > > Say, i have a dict: > > fut_suffix ={ 1 : 'F', > 2 : 'G', > 3 : 'H', > 4 : 'J', > 5 : 'K', > 6 : 'M', > 7 : 'N', > 8 : 'Q', > 9 : 'U', > 10: 'V', > 11: 'X', > 12: 'Z' > } > > where key is a month. > Now i want to get certain number of months. Say, i need 3 months duration > starting from any month in dict. > > so if i start @ 7th: > my_choice =7 > for mnth, value in fut_suffix: > if my_choice >= mnth > # life is great > but if : > my_choice = 12 then my "time travel" becomes pain in the neck.. > > And as such - the question is - what is the smart way to deal with cases > like this? > > Thank you > AZ > > > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list