Get month name from number
import datetimemydate = datetime.datetime.now()mydate.strftime("%B")Returns: December
Some more info on the Python doc website
[EDIT : great comment from @GiriB] You can also use %b which returns the short notation for month name.
mydate.strftime("%b")For the example above, it would return Dec.
From that you can see that calendar.month_name[3] would return March, and the array index of 0 is the empty string, so there's no need to worry about zero-indexing either.