pandas.read_sas¶
- pandas.read_sas(filepath_or_buffer, format=None, index=None, encoding=None, chunksize=None, iterator=False)[source]¶
 Read SAS files stored as either XPORT or SAS7BDAT format files.
- Parameters
 - filepath_or_bufferstr, path object or file-like object
 Any valid string path is acceptable. The string could be a URL. Valid URL schemes include http, ftp, s3, and file. For file URLs, a host is expected. A local file could be:
file://localhost/path/to/table.sas.If you want to pass in a path object, pandas accepts any
os.PathLike.By file-like object, we refer to objects with a
read()method, such as a file handle (e.g. via builtinopenfunction) orStringIO.- formatstr {‘xport’, ‘sas7bdat’} or None
 If None, file format is inferred from file extension. If ‘xport’ or ‘sas7bdat’, uses the corresponding format.
- indexidentifier of index column, defaults to None
 Identifier of column that should be used as index of the DataFrame.
- encodingstr, default is None
 Encoding for text data. If None, text data are stored as raw bytes.
- chunksizeint
 Read file chunksize lines at a time, returns iterator.
Changed in version 1.2:
TextFileReaderis a context manager.- iteratorbool, defaults to False
 If True, returns an iterator for reading the file incrementally.
Changed in version 1.2:
TextFileReaderis a context manager.
- Returns
 - DataFrame if iterator=False and chunksize=None, else SAS7BDATReader
 - or XportReader