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.

• Introduction
• Preparing the Months of the Year
• A Day Called "Today"
• Splitting the Current Date
• The HTML and CSS Preamble
• Printing the Days of the Week
• Getting the Calendar Data
• The Number of Weeks In A Month
• The 'for' Loop Examined
• Calling the main() Function