Date Ordinal Output?

Question

I\'m wondering if there is a quick and easy way to output ordinals given a number in python.

For example, given the number 1, I\'d like to output

Answer 1

These days I'd use Arrow http://arrow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ (which definately wasn't around in '09)

>>> import arrow
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> arrow.get(datetime.utcnow()).format('Do')
'27th'