Roel you wrote:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A dictionary is a data structure containing keys and values that defines a mapping from each key to its corresponding value. You define it like this:
>>> squares = {1: 1, 10: 100, 4: 15, 5: 25}Or an empty dictionary:
>>> emptydict = {}Once defined, you can access individual elements via their keys:
>>> print squares[4] 15
This way you can also assign values to existing elements: >>> squares[4] = 4*4 >>> print squares[4] 16
Or add new elements: >>> squares[6] = 16 >>> squares[7] = 49
Python raises a KeyError exception if you try to read an element with a non-existing key: >>> print squares[9] Traceback (most recent call last): File "<pyshell#1>", line 1, in -toplevel- print squares[9] KeyError: 9
I used numbers for the keys and the values, but in fact any Python object can be used as a value. Any immutable object can be used as a key; for now, just remember that you can use numbers, strings and tuples as keys.
So what you could do is create a dictionary with the names of the months as keys and the corresponding numbers as values and use that dictionary to convert the names in the numbers. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thanks Roel for the reply (same to Kristian and Alan- I will check that website, thanks)
OK below you can see what I have written so far, I am a bit confused when you say
<<to convert the names in the numbers>>. At this stage when I run the script it is asking me to use a string or a number, and if I remove the line converting the string into an integer, it is asking me to use integers.
Thanks
JC
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- import calendar
MonthName = {'January': 1,'February': 2, 'March': 3,'April': 4\
,'May': 5,'June': 6,'July': 7,'August': 8,\
'September': 9,'October': 10,'November': 11,'December': 12}##By the way do the number have to be under that format??
calendar.setfirstweekday(0)
##setfirstweekday change the day to what you want it be
## 0=Monday, 6=Sunday.
year = int(raw_input("Enter a year: "))
month = (raw_input("Enter a month: "))
MonthName_int = int(MonthName)
print calendar.prmonth(year,month)
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