strftime « date « Python Data Type Q&A

1. Python strftime - date decimal-remove 0?    stackoverflow.com

When using Python strftime, is there a way to remove the first 0 of the date if it's before the 10th ie. so 01 is 1? Can't find a %thingy for ...

2. Python: comparing dates and print out the first one    stackoverflow.com

This is probably very simple, but I am a beginner in python and I wanted to compare birthday dates by prompting a user to enter a date in MM-DD format. No ...

3. Display the date, like "May 5th", using pythons strftime?    stackoverflow.com

Possible Duplicate:
Python: Date Ordinal Output?

4. Python calendar, counting empty days of the week before the first of the month    stackoverflow.com

I did something like this :

import datetime
nb_blank_days = (int(datetime.date(year, month, 1).strftime('%w'))+6)%7