How do I invoke a sas script in python?

2
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I can open a sas instance but im not certain how to get it to run a specific sas script.

Im using the following code to start sas:

import subprocess
subprocess.call(['C:\Program Files\SAS\SASFoundation\9.2\sas.exe'])
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pythonsas
Did my solution work? Were you able to invoke SAS as you needed? – Maurice Reeves
@Maurice Yes thank you very much! I can confirm that the -sysin option is required for this to work. Also, I had to use double backslashes '\\' instead of single ones in all my path variables to get this to work. – user3767327
Excellent! I'm glad you were able to get it work for you. Best of luck with SAS! – Maurice Reeves

1 Answers

5
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You can pass additional parameters through to SAS via subprocess call, but the important things you also need to remember are:

  1. You need to tell SAS where to find the AUTOEXEC file

  2. You need to tell SAS where to find the config file

I have a shell script that I use to invoke SAS scripts and the call looks like:

sas -config $SAS_CONFIG -autoexec $SAS_AUTOEXEC $SAS_CODE/$1

So your call should look like: subprocess.call(['C:\Program Files\SAS\SASFoundation\9.2\sas.exe', '-config', config_path, '-autoexec', autoexec_path, '-sysin', sas_script_path])

You'll need to set up the variables for the paths above.

Good luck!