(Find the number of days in a month)

Question

Write a program that prompts the user to enter the month and year and displays the number of days in the month. For example, if the user entered month 2 and year 2000, the program should display that February 2000 has 29 days. If the user entered month 3 and year 2005, the program should display that March 2005 has 31 days.

Answer 1

def days_in_month(month, year):

days = [31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31]

if year%4 == 0 and month == 2:

days[1] += 1

return days[month-1]

month = input("Enter the month number: ")

year = input("Enter the year: ")

print(days_in_month(int(month),int(year)))

Hi,

Please see the above code.

(1) first we define a function which will return the number of days in a given month specified.

As you can see we use a reference list of the days in each month, in an ordinary year

(2) if the year is divisible by 4 and the month is 2 (ie February) we need to add 1 more day to our reference

(3) we return the relevant entry in the reference list

Hope this helps!