Python calendar: day/month names in specific locale
Question: I am playing with Python's
[calendar](http://docs.python.org/library/calendar.html) 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 month 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\nMo Di Mi Do Fr Sa So\n 1  2  3  4  5  6  7\n 8  9 10 11 12 13 14\n15 16 17 18 19 20 21\n22 23 24 25 26 27 28\n29 30 31\n'
    

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: 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'
    

