#!/usr/bin/python import time, sys template = 'today is %s %d, year %d\n' months = [ 'january', 'febuary', 'march', 'april', 'may', 'june', 'july', 'august', 'september', 'october', 'november', 'december' ] t = time.localtime()[:3] sys.stdout.write(template%(months[t[1]-1], t[2], t[0]))