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How to print calendar.monthname array in python?

I have the following code:

import calendar
month=calendar.month_name   
print(month)

I want to have the following output, which is in array form or list form:

['January','February',...,'December']

but above the code nothing can be returned to me.

Can anyone please point out my error?

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What it returns is actually an array object . If you want to convert it to a list, call on it: list() 

>>> import calendar
>>> calendar.month_name
<calendar._localized_month instance at 0x10e0b2830>
>>> list(calendar.month_name)
['', 'January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December']

By default, a list has an empty string as its first element, so indexing can be done from 1 instead of 0. If you want to remove that, just do list(calendar.month_name[1:])



Depending on your code, there really may not be any reason for this. The array object will have the same properties as any list:

>>> for month in calendar.month_name[1:]:
...     print month
... 
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
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>>>import calendar
>>>months = [x for x in calendar.month_name if x]
>>>print(months)
['January',
 'February',
 'March',
 'April',
 'May',
 'June',
 'July',
 'August',
 'September',
 'October',
 'November',
 'December']


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Use a filter to get non-blank lines:

import calendar
months = filter(None, calendar.month_name)
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