How To Create A HTML Calendar In Python Dynamically

Knowing the number of weeks in the month, we can create a for loop which counts through a range() from 0 to the number of weeks. As it does, it will print out the rest of the calendar.

    for w in range(0,nweeks):
        week = month[w]
        print "<tr>"
        for x in xrange(0,7):
            day = week[x]
            if x == 5 or x == 6:
                classtype = 'weekend'
            else:
                classtype = 'day'

            if day == 0:
                classtype = 'previous'
                print '<td class="%s"></td>' %(classtype)
            elif day == current_day:
                print '<td class="%s"><strong>%s</strong></span><div class="%s"></div></td>' %(classtype, day, classtype)
            else:
                print '<td class="%s">%s</span><div class="%s"></div></td>' %(classtype, day, classtype)
        print "</tr>"
    
    print '''        </tbody>
             </table>
             </div>
             </body>
             </html>'''

We will discuss this code line-by-line on the next page.

Index: How To Create A HTML Calendar In Python Dynamically

1. Introduction
2. Preparing the Months of the Year
3. A Day Called "Today"
4. Splitting the Current Date
5. The HTML and CSS Preamble
6. Printing the Days of the Week
7. Getting the Calendar Data
8. The Number of Weeks In A Month
9. The 'for' Loop Examined
10. Calling the main() Function