problem with calendar

[Jørgen Cederberg]

"Roman Suzi" <rnd at onego.ru> wrote in message news:mailman.1036148287.8559.python-list at python.org...
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> I have the following problem:
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> Python 2.2.2 (#1, Oct 18 2002, 11:40:02)
> [GCC 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-110)] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> >>> import calendar
> >>> calendar.month_abbr
> <calendar._localized_month instance at 0x8164a5c>
> >>> calendar.month_abbr()
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> AttributeError: _localized_month instance has no __call__ method
> 
> What's up?

calendar.month_abbr is an instance of a _localized_month class and thus not callable because it does not have a __call__ method as the Traceback states. A dir-command reveals that it has a __getitem__ method. Example:

>>> calendar.month_abbr[1]
'Jan'

Sincerely yours 
Jorgen



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