How to print a calendar for a month in Python

In Python to display calendar, you need to import calendar module, it provides various functions to handle operations related to calendar, and also includes printing a text calendar for a month .

Calendar Module

The calendar module in python provides various functions and classes to perform date-related operations. To print a calendar in Python, we import the calendar module, which will import all module classes.

Key Features

Some of the features provided by Calendar module are as follows:

• Calendar Functions: To generate HTML or text format calendars for a given month or year.

• Locale settings: We can customize the calendar to match with specfic locale sertting such as first day of the week, month names etc.

• Calculations on Date: We can also Perform calculations with dates, such as finding nmber of weeks in a month.

Example 1

The below example code will print a text calendar for a specified year(yy) and month(mm).

# importing calendar module import calendar # Specifying the year and month year = 2024 month = 8 # Creating a TextCalendar object cal = calendar.TextCalendar(calendar.SUNDAY) # Printing calendar for the specified month and year print(cal.formatmonth(year, month)) 

Output

 August 2024 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 

Example 2

Printing the calendar by using the calendar.month built-in function.

# Importing the calendar module import calendar y = 2024 m = 9 # By using calender.month() function print(calendar.month(y, m)) 

Output

 September 2024 Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30