Python programming?

First off your else doesn't need to test not equal, it can just print the date is not magic.

Second, are you required to validate the date? If so, there is surely a module to do it for you. If you aren't allowed to use modules, then you will have to check them manually, but that's not too hard. Just if month is 2, day has to be less than 30, if month is 4, 6, 9, or 11, day has to be less than 31, and the rest less than 32. And of course all have to be greater than 0.

I don't know python , but can you just put a bunch of if/else statements depending on the particular month.

As in only allow values between 1-29 for February.

you would have to add the day string in a loop under all the month conditions.

If you still need assistance with this, I wrote a program in Javascript that provides the desired result. I installed a series of while loops into one of the functions to preclude non-existent combinations of days and months.

Translating it to Python shouldn't be terribly difficult, as most of the code is procedural.

after going to class today, I was told that I was really over thinking the question and that if they wanted the program to break each month down they would have asked for it. My program that I had was what they were wanting.

Thanks for all the help

As somebody said, one way or another you need to make a table of months and days in the months and use that.

If you've gotten to the point in the class where you know about dictionaries, that would be the way to go -i.e. something like (off the top of my head here, don't take this too literally):

months = {1:31,2:28,3:31,4:30, 5:31, 6:30, 7:31, 8:31, 9:30, 10:31, 11:30, 12:31}

then in your loop:
if (day > months [month]) print "gimme a better date"

and loop again. Keep doing that until you get a valid response.

If you don't want to use a dictionary, then since you're getting 'month' as an int anyway, you can just use a list of days per month:
months = [31,28,31,30,31,30,31,31,30,31,30,31]
and do the same thing: if (day > months [month]) ...

If you're still shaky on that, then you'll probably want to just put all that logic into the loop explicitly:
month =
day =
year =
if (month == 1 AND day > 31) { complain }
elif (month == 2 AND day > 28 { complain }
...
if (you complained) { start loop again }

EDIT (I read your second post): yeah, on the one hand, this is probably more than they want if you're looking at really basic operations and mostly non-branching control flow. On the other hand, input validation is way more important than even some professional developers seem to think, and it's never too early to at least think about it. You're ahead of the game here, even if it is overthinking the assignment.

this is a college class. Just at chapter 3. this is the 4th week of the class. When I asked about the assignment, the teacher did mention about eventually input validation would be required but not yet.