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Asked: 2026-06-06T14:53:08+00:00

I am working with Django’s generic views, specifically django.views.generic.date_based.archive_month . This views sets the

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I am working with Django’s generic views, specifically django.views.generic.date_based.archive_month.

This views sets the template context to include date_list which contains a list of the relevant python datetime.datetime objects. (See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/ref/generic-views/#django-views-generic-date-based-archive-month)

This my simple template to use this view:

<html>
        <head>
                <title>Entries index</title>
        </head>
        <body>
                <h1>Entries index by month: {{ month|date:"F" }}</h1>
                <h2>Day:</h2>
                {% for datetime_object in date_list %}
                        <ul><a href="/weblog/{{ year }}/{{ month.month }}/{{ datetime_object.day }}/">{{ datetime_object.day }}</a></ul>
                {% endfor %}
        </body>
</html>

My problem is that although I can get the numerical month, say 3 for march, my urls are set up to use the three letter representation, i.e. mar for march, so that <a href= block isn’t pointing to the right url.

How can I set up a mapping to map each of the month’s numerical value to their three letter representation?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can use the built-in date template tag with the b format character.
    Applied example below: 

    <ul>
  <!-- whitespace added below solely for readability 
       I do not recommend adding such whitespace in your code -->
  <a href="/weblog/{{ year }}/{{ month|date:"b" }}/{{ datetime_object.day }}/">
    {{ datetime_object.day }}
  </a>
</ul>
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