sasreader.py

"""
Read SAS sas7bdat or xport files.
"""
from pandas.io.common import stringify_path


def read_sas(
    filepath_or_buffer,
    format=None,
    index=None,
    encoding=None,
    chunksize=None,
    iterator=False,
):
    """
    Read SAS files stored as either XPORT or SAS7BDAT format files.

    Parameters
    ----------
    filepath_or_buffer : str, 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 handler (e.g. via builtin ``open`` function)
        or ``StringIO``.
    format : str {'xport', 'sas7bdat'} or None
        If None, file format is inferred from file extension. If 'xport' or
        'sas7bdat', uses the corresponding format.
    index : identifier of index column, defaults to None
        Identifier of column that should be used as index of the DataFrame.
    encoding : str, default is None
        Encoding for text data.  If None, text data are stored as raw bytes.
    chunksize : int
        Read file `chunksize` lines at a time, returns iterator.
    iterator : bool, defaults to False
        If True, returns an iterator for reading the file incrementally.

    Returns
    -------
    DataFrame if iterator=False and chunksize=None, else SAS7BDATReader
    or XportReader
    """
    if format is None:
        buffer_error_msg = (
            "If this is a buffer object rather "
            "than a string name, you must specify "
            "a format string"
        )
        filepath_or_buffer = stringify_path(filepath_or_buffer)
        if not isinstance(filepath_or_buffer, str):
            raise ValueError(buffer_error_msg)
        fname = filepath_or_buffer.lower()
        if fname.endswith(".xpt"):
            format = "xport"
        elif fname.endswith(".sas7bdat"):
            format = "sas7bdat"
        else:
            raise ValueError("unable to infer format of SAS file")

    if format.lower() == "xport":
        from pandas.io.sas.sas_xport import XportReader

        reader = XportReader(
            filepath_or_buffer, index=index, encoding=encoding, chunksize=chunksize
        )
    elif format.lower() == "sas7bdat":
        from pandas.io.sas.sas7bdat import SAS7BDATReader

        reader = SAS7BDATReader(
            filepath_or_buffer, index=index, encoding=encoding, chunksize=chunksize
        )
    else:
        raise ValueError("unknown SAS format")

    if iterator or chunksize:
        return reader

    data = reader.read()
    reader.close()
    return data