title: How to make a calendar that takes input: modify existing calendar module or build my own
body: <p>I know a little python and thats about it.
  My goal is to make a program that takes some user input and prints out 2 things:</p>
  
  <p>(pardon the useless visual aids)</p>
  
  <p>A mon-sun list like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>mon     tues     wed     ...
  
  jon 1   alex 3   sam 2
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and a calender with the same info:</p>
  
  <pre><code>                           feb
          1       2     3      4...
          jon     alex  sam
          joe     lun   fred
  
          8       9     10 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>Question: Do I set out to build my own calendar from scratch? Or would it be more logical to somehow modify say the existing calendar module that comes with the python standard library? or I'm i completely going about this the wrong way and should consider... (something)</strong></p>
  
  <p>I have been scanning the <a href="http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.7/Lib/calendar.py" rel="nofollow">calendar module for python</a> and aren't confident i could control that much code. But building my own thing seems equally difficult.</p>
  
  <p>additional: The program will get used probable by nobody but theoretically it would need to run on a windows, I haven't figured out the (Gui or web application), security or how to save/back-up/access the user data. </p>