Get Month Name Short Version - 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.

Month	Output
January	Jan
February	Feb
March	Mar
April	Apr
May	May
June	Jun
July	Jul
August	Aug
September	Sep
October	Oct
November	Nov
December	Dec

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.

Python Program

#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.

Python Program

#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.