Question

I am trying to build a calendar view using django and trying to avoid writing any html tags inside my view. I found a code that helped me get there,

from datetime import date, datetime, timedelta, time
import calendar

year=2011
month=12
change=None

# init variables
cal = calendar.Calendar()
month_days = cal.itermonthdays(year, month)
lst = [[]]
week = 0

# make month lists containing list of days for each week
# each day tuple will contain list of entries and 'current' indicator
for day in month_days:
    lst[week].append((day))
    if len(lst[week]) == 7:
        lst.append([])
        week += 1

and in my view, i did the following

<div class="calendar_panel_bottom_noborder">
    <span class="month">Juny 2011</span>
    <span class="day_name">S</span>
    <span class="day_name">M</span>
    <span class="day_name">T</span>
    <span class="day_name">W</span>
    <span class="day_name">T</span>
    <span class="day_name">F</span>
    <span class="day_name">S</span>
    {% for week in month_days %}

        {% for day in week %}
            <span class="date">{{ day }}</span>
        {% endfor %}

    {% endfor %}
    <div class="clear"></div>


</div>

Now, the above code is printing the calendar as per the month and year parameters but they are appearing wrong. When I compare it with the calendar, using december 2011, the first day of the month starts at thursday while in calendar its starting on wednesday. can anyone help point out what I did wrong here?

UPDATE

It seems like the problem is coming from itermonthdays. I tried to do the following

>>> month_days = cal.itermonthdays(2011, 12)
>>> for day in month_days:
...  print day
... 
0
0
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
0

I don’t know if I should change some sort of a settings or initiate the class differently. But, the output should start with 4 zeros and end with none based on my PC calendar it shows that december 2011 starts on a thursday which is the 5th day of the week therefore there should be 4 zeros before the count starts. hmm any advice on how i can tackle this issue?

Answer 1

You need to include

cal.setfirstweekday(6)

before

monthdays = ...

According to python documentation, …

By default, these calendars have Monday as the first day of the week,
and Sunday as the last (the European convention).