formatmonth() to get month calendar as multi line string with width and number of lines for each week

`theyear`	Year number for which calendar of the month is returned
`themonth`	Month number for which calendar of the month is returned
`w`	Optional , default =0 , width of date column
`l`	Optional , default =0 , number of line each week will use

formatmonth() : Returns a string of Monthly calendar .

import calendar
x=calendar.TextCalendar() # 
print(x.formatmonth(theyear=2020,themonth=7,w=3,l=0))

Output

         July 2020
Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
          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

Based on the setting of first day of the week, the calendar first weekday can be set. Week day number starts from 0 as Monday , 1 as Tuesday and ends at 6 as Sunday.

import calendar
x=calendar.TextCalendar() 
x.setfirstweekday(4) # first week day is Friday
print(x.formatmonth(theyear=2020,themonth=7,w=3,l=0))

Output

         July 2020
Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu
                      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

Example : Formatting a Month in HTML

import calendar

# Create an HTMLCalendar instance
html_cal = calendar.HTMLCalendar()

# Get the month as an HTML table
html_month = html_cal.formatmonth(2023, 10)
print(html_month)

October 2023
Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
						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

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="month">
<tr><th colspan="7" class="month">October 2023</th></tr>
<tr><th class="mon">Mon</th><th class="tue">Tue</th><th class="wed">Wed</th><th class="thu">Thu</th><th class="fri">Fri</th><th class="sat">Sat</th><th class="sun">Sun</th></tr>
<tr><td class="noday">&nbsp;</td><td class="noday">&nbsp;</td><td class="noday">&nbsp;</td><td class="noday">&nbsp;</td><td class="noday">&nbsp;</td><td class="noday">&nbsp;</td><td class="sun">1</td></tr>
<tr><td class="mon">2</td><td class="tue">3</td><td class="wed">4</td><td class="thu">5</td><td class="fri">6</td><td class="sat">7</td><td class="sun">8</td></tr>
<tr><td class="mon">9</td><td class="tue">10</td><td class="wed">11</td><td class="thu">12</td><td class="fri">13</td><td class="sat">14</td><td class="sun">15</td></tr>
<tr><td class="mon">16</td><td class="tue">17</td><td class="wed">18</td><td class="thu">19</td><td class="fri">20</td><td class="sat">21</td><td class="sun">22</td></tr>
<tr><td class="mon">23</td><td class="tue">24</td><td class="wed">25</td><td class="thu">26</td><td class="fri">27</td><td class="sat">28</td><td class="sun">29</td></tr>
<tr><td class="mon">30</td><td class="tue">31</td><td class="noday">&nbsp;</td><td class="noday">&nbsp;</td><td class="noday">&nbsp;</td><td class="noday">&nbsp;</td><td class="noday">&nbsp;</td></tr>
</table>

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formatmonth(): generates a formatted calendar for a specific month

Example : Formatting a Month in HTML

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