On Apr 15, 9:30 pm, "7stud" <bbxx789_0... at yahoo.com> wrote: > On Apr 15, 7:30 pm, "Steven W. Orr" <ste... at syslang.net> wrote: Arrgh. import calendar months = calendar.month_abbr #returns an array with the 0 element empty #so the month names line up with the indexes 1-12 d = {} for i in range(1, 13): d[months[i]] = i print d