How to get Month Name Full Version using 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.

# 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.

# 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.