month name to month number and vice versa in python

Question

I am trying to create a function that can convert a month number to an abbreviated month name or an abbreviated month name to a month number. I thought this might be a commo

Answer 1

Information source: Python Docs

To get month number from month name use datetime module

import datetime
month_number = datetime.datetime.strptime(month_name, '%b').month

# To  get month name
In [2]: datetime.datetime.strftime(datetime.datetime.now(), '%a %b %d, %Y')
Out [2]: 'Thu Aug 10, 2017'

# To get just the month name, %b gives abbrevated form, %B gives full month name
# %b => Jan
# %B => January
dateteime.datetime.strftime(datetime_object, '%b')