date using either raw_input() or input() coming up as integer - python-2.7

Question

New to Python and have read so many other SO questions that I feel like I am missing something with how to massage user input to string format. I have this simple code and I get the AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'split' so I added exception handiling and am getting error everytime. I have tried almost everything with the str(), datetime() and std.readline() and nothing.
def dateConverter(userDate):
try:
#split the substrings for month day year
date = userDate.split("/")
#day
day = date[:2]
#month
month = date[3:5]#[ beginning : beginning + LENGTH]
months = {1:'January', 2:'February', 3:'March', 4:'April', 5:'May', 6:'June', 7:'July', 8:'August', 9:'September', 10:'October', 11:'November', 12:'December'}
for key,value in months:
month=value
#year
year = date[4:]
print(str(month + ' ' + day + ',' + year))
return True
except:
print('Error')
return False
print('Enter a date in the format: mm/dd/yyyy \n')
userInput = raw_input()
dateConverter(userInput)
main()
Note: I have both Python27 and Python34 installed on Win7
Edit
vaibhav-sagar was correct, I wasn't slicing the string the right way and had nothing to do with the input. Although, I have Python27 & Python34 installed and even though I set my variable path to Python34 I have to use raw_input() which I heard was deprecated in Python34 so look out for that too. That is what was stumping me! Sorry, this was my second look at Python so it was really new territory. I actually got the slicing examples from another SO answer so that is what I get for assuming. Here is the solution:
#custom date converter func
def dateConverter(userDate):
try:
#split the substrings for month day year
date = userDate.split("/")
#day
day = date[1]#[ beginning : beginning + LENGTH]
#month
month = date[0]
months = {1:'January', 2:'February', 3:'March', 4:'April', 5:'May', 6:'June', 7:'July', 8:'August', 9:'September', 10:'October', 11:'November', 12:'December'}
month=months[int(month)]
#year
year = date[2]
print(month + ' ' + day + ',' + year)
return True
except:
print('Error')
return False
Next step is to validate using re to validate the date is valid

Answer 1

I am using Python 3.3.5 and getting a different error. An exception is being raised at
for key, value in months:
Because iterating over a dictionary yields only keys, and not keys and values. What you want can be accomplished by:
for key, value in months.items():
More generally, your issues seem unrelated to your massaging of user input. This can be verified by using IDLE or another REPL. For example:
>>> someDate = '12/10/2014'
>>> date = someDate.split('/')
>>> date
['12', '10', '2014']
>>> day = date[:2]
>>> day
['12', '10']
>>> month = date[3:5]
>>> month
[]
>>> year = date[4:]
>>> year
[]
Python's slice syntax is doing something different to what I think you want. I also think you don't need a for loop, instead you can do:
month = months[int(month)]
This will assign the month name to month, like you expect. A function that does what I think you want would look something like this:
def dateConverter(userDate):
#split the substrings for month day year
date = userDate.split("/")
#day
day = date[1]
#month
month = date[0]
months = {1:'January', 2:'February', 3:'March', 4:'April', 5:'May', 6:'June', 7:'July', 8:'August', 9:'September', 10:'October', 11:'November', 12:'December'}
month = months[int(month)]
#year
year = date[2]
print(str(month + ' ' + day + ',' + year))
return True
I hope that helps.