python - Calendar: day/month names in specific locale

Question

I am playing with Python's calendar module that's in the standard library. Basically I need a list of all days of a month, like so:

>>> import calendar
>>> calobject = calendar.monthcalendar(2012, 10)
>>> print calobject
[[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, 0, 0, 0]]

Now what I also need are the names of the months and days in a specific locale. I didn't find a way to get these from the calobject itself - but I was able to get them like so:

>>> import calendar
>>> calobject = calendar.LocaleTextCalendar(calendar.MONDAY, 'de_DE')
>>> calobject.formatmonth(2012, 10)
'    Oktober 2012
Mo Di Mi Do Fr Sa So
 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
'

So Oktober is the de_DE name for october. Fine. The information must be there. I'm wondering if I can access that month name somehow on a plain calendar object instead of a calendar.LocaleTextCalendar object. The first example (with the list) is really what I need and I don't like the idea to create two calendar objects to get localized names.

Anyone got a smart idea?

Answer 1

Ha! Found an easy way to get localized day/month names:

>>> import locale
>>> locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, 'de_DE')
'de_DE'
>>> import calendar
>>> calendar.month_name[10]
'Oktober'
>>> calendar.day_name[1]
'Dienstag'