Bug report
Bug description:
A calendar module CLI displays month names in a Polish, and other Slavic languages using the genitive case, as it is used in a phrase "in January". However, for standalone usage, month names should appear in the nominative case to be grammatically correct. For instance, in Polish, "January" should be written as "styczeń" instead of "stycznia"; similarly, in Russian, it should be "январь" rather than "января". This issue likely affects Baltic languages and Greek as well.
Example command demonstrating the issue:
python3 -m calendar --locale pl_PL --encoding utf
This problem occurs because the calendar module uses the strftime %B format specifier, which returns month names suitable for complete date contexts (genitive case). Instead, a nominative form is required when months are mentioned independently:
| # Full and abbreviated names of months (1-based arrays!!!) | |
| month_name = _localized_month('%B') | |
| month_abbr = _localized_month('%b') |
CPython versions tested on:
CPython main branch
Operating systems tested on:
macOS