How to get Month Name Short Version using Python datetime?

Python datetime – Get Month Name Short Version

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

Examples

1. Get month name short 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 short version
print(d.strftime("%b"))

Output

2019-06-26 08:50:36.787821
Jun

2. Get month name short 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 short version
print(d.strftime("%b"))

Output

2019-08-12 00:00:00
Aug

Summary

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