[Tutor] executing SAS and passing parameters
Terry Carroll
carroll at tjc.com
Wed Feb 9 01:31:42 CET 2005
Ah, SAS. I used that a lot in the early '80s for general programming. I
felt a lot about SAS then as I do about Python now.
Enough of that. Can you show your python code that invokes SAS; and can
you also show what you type at a command line that makes SAS run the
way you want?
Given the command line, it should be pretty straightforward to move the
command line invocation into Python.
On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Williams, Thomas wrote:
> I'll do my best to answer these questions for you.
>
> I am able to start the SAS executable from python, but not the specific SAS
> program in question. When this executable is executed, the typical SAS
> environment is displayed (SAS editor Window, SAS libraries, and the output
> and log windows). I want to have a specific SAS program executing with the
> assigned parameters that will be read into a SAS macro.
>
> This SAS program was originally called from an AML (Arc Macro Language),
> again, with the parameters passed to it.
>
> OS: WindowsNT
>
> Let me know if you need further information.
>
> Thanks again,
> Tom
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Gauld [mailto:alan.gauld at freenet.co.uk]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 1:57 PM
> To: Williams, Thomas; tutor at python.org
> Subject: Re: [Tutor] executing SAS and passing parameters
>
> > I am trying to use python to run a SAS program by passing the needed
> > parameters. I am able to start SAS, but unable to start the correct
> SAS
> > program with its parameters.
>
> Not being familiar with SAS or its parameters we'll need more clues...
>
> > Any assistance you could provide will be appreciated.
>
> Can you show us what you used to start SAS?
> Can you tell us exactly what happened? - any errors etc?
> Can you show us how you'd do it outside of Python?
> Can you tell us which OS you are using?
>
> With that info we should be able to make a stab at it.
>
> Alan G.
>
>
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