Help with Python Program

[nightrev]

Write a Python function that will take a string of the form “4/11/2010” and print the corresponding date in the form “Apr 11, 2010”. Make use of strings, lists, and appropriate operators/methods. In particular, define a list that contains the month abbreviations so that you can convert without needing any if-statements.

I don't really know where to start...this is all I have.

def date():
    string1=["4/11/2010"]
    list1=["Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec"]

[kur3k]

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

dic = { 1  : "Jan",
        2  : "Feb",
        3  : "Mar",
        4  : "Apr",
        5  : "May",
        6  : "Jun",
        7  : "Jul",
        8  : "Aug",
        9  : "Sep",
        10 : "Oct",
        11 : "Nov",
        12 : "Dec" }

def replace_date(month = 0):
    return dic[month]
    
example_date = '4/11/2010'

print replace_date(int(example_date.split('/')[0]))

[nightrev]

Does this only print the month? All I'm getting for an output is Apr. I need it to say Apr 11, 2010. I would really appreciate the help.

[kur3k]

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

dic = { 1  : "Jan",
        2  : "Feb",
        3  : "Mar",
        4  : "Apr",
        5  : "May",
        6  : "Jun",
        7  : "Jul",
        8  : "Aug",
        9  : "Sep",
        10 : "Oct",
        11 : "Nov",
        12 : "Dec" }

def replace_date( month, day, year ):
    return '%s %s, %s' % ( dic[month], day, year )
    
example_date = '4/11/2010'

print replace_date( int(example_date.split('/')[0]), example_date.split('/')[1], example_date.split('/')[2] )

[snippsat]

Yes Kur3k soultion is ok,a little long that last print line.

dic = { 1  : "Jan",
        2  : "Feb",
        3  : "Mar",
        4  : "Apr",
        5  : "May",
        6  : "Jun",
        7  : "Jul",
        8  : "Aug",
        9  : "Sep",
        10 : "Oct",
        11 : "Nov",
        12 : "Dec" }

def replace_date(month = 0):
    return dic[month]

m, d, y = '4/11/2010'.split('/')
#print m, d, y #Test print
print '%s, %s, %s' % (replace_date(int(m)), d, y)
#-->Apr, 11, 2010

@nightrev you dident try to hard at this school task and where maybe lucky to get a finish solution for your answer.

[nightrev]

Thank You for the help! By the way, I was just wondering how would you write this program with lists instead of dictionary?

[snippsat]

Thank You for the help! By the way, I was just wondering how would you write this program with lists instead of dictionary?

>>> n = [i+1 for i in range(12)]
>>> m = ["Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec"]
>>> z = zip(n,m)
>>> z
[(1, 'Jan'),
 (2, 'Feb'),
 (3, 'Mar'),
 (4, 'Apr'),
 (5, 'May'),
 (6, 'Jun'),
 (7, 'Jul'),
 (8, 'Aug'),
 (9, 'Sep'),
 (10, 'Oct'),
 (11, 'Nov'),
 (12, 'Dec')]
>>> m, d, y = '4/11/2010'.split('/')
>>> for i in range(len(z)):
...     if int(m) in z[i]:
...         print z[i][1]
...         break
...     
Apr
>>>

[wulaishiwo]

I think using the 'datetime' module is the standard way. But the Locale may be a problem. Below is the code snippet showing how to:

from datetime import datetime
original = “4/11/2010”
formated = datetime.strptime(original, '%m/%d/%Y').strftime('%b %d, %Y')

Write a Python function that will take a string of the form “4/11/2010” and print the corresponding date in the form “Apr 11, 2010”. Make use of strings, lists, and appropriate operators/methods. In particular, define a list that contains the month abbreviations so that you can convert without needing any if-statements.

I don't really know where to start...this is all I have.

def date():
    string1=["4/11/2010"]
    list1=["Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec"]

[snippsat]

Yes using time or datetime is the standar way,but i am pretty sure that he can not use that in this school assignment.
Because task like this has been posted many times before,and no module could be used.

[Legnoduro]

Here is another solution using only "strings, lists, and appropriate operators/methods".

def convert_mnth(date_string):
    months = ["Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec"]
    month = months[int(date_string[-10:-8])-1]
    day = date_string[-8:-5]
    year = date_string[-5:]

    print("%s%s%s" %(month,day,year))

_____________________________________________________
>>>convert_mnth('12/23/2010')
Dec/23/2010

>>> convert_mnth('1/23/2010')
Jan/23/2010