I have two questions, I've recently built a django custom templatetag which displays a calendar when called. Am currently facing two issues which am not sure how to resolve,

• How do I display day names as single character (S, M, T,..etc) I found calendar.day_abbr which returns (SAT, MON..etc)

• My site is being used on several languages and I was wondering how do I get them to display as per viewing language. I tried using LocaleTextCalendar() but without any luck.

  from django import template

  import calendar

  from django.conf import settings

  register = template.Library()

  def calendar_parser(parser, token): """ calendar parser will handle validating the parameters and passing them on to the context """ try: tag_name, year, month, entries, as_, resolve_tag = token.split_contents() except ValueError: raise template.TemplateSyntaxError, "%r tag requires six arguments" % token.contents.split()[0] return calendar_node(year, month, entries, resolve_tag)

  class calendar_node(template.Node): """ Process a particular node in the template. Fail silently. """

  def __init__(self, year, month, entries, resolve_tag):
      try:
          self.year = template.Variable(year)
          self.month = template.Variable(month)
          self.entries = template.Variable(entries)
          #resolved strings
          self.resolve_tag = resolve_tag
      except ValueError:
          raise template.TemplateSyntaxError
  
  def render(self, context):
      try:
          # FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK beginning of the week, django setting
          cal = calendar.LocaleTextCalendar(settings.FIRST_DAY_OF_WEEK, 'ar')
  
  
  
          # render calendar header
          context['week_header'] = [day for day in calendar.day_name]
  
  
  
          # Get the variables from the context so the method is thread-safe.
          my_entries = self.entries.resolve(context)
          my_year = self.year.resolve(context)
          my_month = self.month.resolve(context)
  
  
          month_days = cal.itermonthdays(my_yea开发者_如何学运维r, my_month)
  
          lst = [[]]
          week = 0
  
          # make month lists containing list of days for each week
          # each day tuple will contain list of entries and 'current' indicator
          for day in month_days:
              entries = current = False   # are there entries for this day; current day?
              lst[week].append((day, my_entries, current))
              if len(lst[week]) == 7:
                  lst.append([])
                  week += 1
  
          # assign variable to context as resolve_tag
          context[self.resolve_tag] = lst
  
          return ''
  
  
      except ValueError:
          return
      except template.VariableDoesNotExist:
          raise template.TemplateSyntaxError
  

  Register the template tag so it is available to templates

  register.tag("calendar_view", calendar_parser)

calendar.weekheader(n)

Return a header containing abbreviated weekday names. n specifies the width in characters for one weekday.

Thus for n=1 will return single character abbreviations.