Hello -- I'm parsing the output of the finger command, and was wondering something...If I'm given a month abbrievation (such as "Jan"), what's the best way to figure out the month number? I see that there's something called "month_abbr" in the calendar module. However, when I try to do calendar.month_abbr.index("Jan"), I get "_localized_month instance has no attribute 'index'." So it seems that month_abbr isn't a regular list. I'm currently doing it this way:
def month_number(monthabbr): """Return the month number for monthabbr; e.g. "Jan" -> 1.""" for index, day in enumerate(calendar.month_abbr): if day == monthabbr: return index which works well enough but isn't very clever. I'm pretty new to Python; what am I missing here? Thanks -- Bill. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list