On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On 07/10/12 12:08, Richard D. Moores wrote: >> >> On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Mark Lawrence<breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> >> wrote: >> >>> Use calendar.day_name. >> >> >> How? > > > By reading the Fine Manual. > > http://docs.python.org/library/calendar.html#calendar.day_name > > which is so short that I can copy it here: > > calendar.day_abbr > An array that represents the abbreviated days of the week in > the current locale. > > > Like other arrays, lists, tuples etc., you use it by getting the > item at position n: > > py> import calendar > py> calendar.day_name[1] > 'Tuesday'
Of course, I see now that I'd made a really stupid mistake. I used parentheses instead of brackets: >>> import calendar >>> calendar.day_name(1) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <fragment> builtins.TypeError: '_localized_day' object is not callable Thanks, Dick _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor