Get Month Name Full Version - Python datetime

Python datetime - Get Month Name Full Version

To get Month Name Full Version using Python datetime, call strftime() with %B passed as argument.

Examples

1. Get month name full version from current date

In the following example, we will take the current date, and get the day of month.

Python Program

#import datetime package
import datetime

#get current time
d = datetime.datetime.now()

#print date
print(d)

#get month name full version
print(d.strftime("%B"))

Output

2019-06-26 08:51:18.164152
June

2. Get month name full version from given date

In the following example, we will take a date 2019-08-12 and get the day of month.

Python Program

#import datetime package
import datetime

#set specific date
d = datetime.datetime(2019, 8, 12)

#print date
print(d)

#get month name full version
print(d.strftime("%B"))

Output

2019-08-12 00:00:00
August

Summary

In this tutorial, we extracted the month name full version from date using datetime package.