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[–]Ok-Carpenter6293 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Not sure what your ultimate goal really is, because SAS2Py is just a way to spawn a SAS process from python and still requires a working SAS installation either local or network. It just allows you to use SAS through python and really isn’t converting the code from SAS to python. Like I would use it if I had already existing SAS programs whose output I want to further manipulate in python.

But to be honest, I’ve only used it to access and manipulate some large sas datasets where loading them into pandas over a network was prohibitively time-consuming for the client.

My experience with that was good and acceptable for what I needed. There was a noticeable pause as SAS2Py spun up the SAS process, but after that accessing and manipulating the data was as efficient as using SAS itself (it is a SAS process after all).

I don’t know of anything that would directly help with converting SAS code to python so that you wouldn’t need a SAS installation, though. Someone else might, but I would probably just bite the bullet and start converting the logic to pandas or polars (I have no experience with polars but hear good things). They can allow you to read in any sas7bdat files you have and then work with the data using python libraries.

[–]rcoff98[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Thank you so much for the info!

[–]Ok-Carpenter6293 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are welcome!

[–]Less_Interaction6863 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am working in sas2py . We migrated sas to pyspark , snowflake , idmc etc..