Is there any way to use SASPY on SAS Server 9.3

[maxl88]

Hi everyone,

We are actually using SAS Server 9.3 and would like to access our libraries through python.
SASPY seems to be the best option by far.

We know that SASPY doesn’t officially support SAS 9.3. Is there a way to connect with SASPY anyway?

Thanks!

[tomweber-sas]

There was a user who needed to run against a local install of 9.3 on Windows. That did work once we added the following to the configuration file.

SAS_output_options = {'output' : 'html'}

The main reason for 9.4 as a minimum is the support of HTML5. HTML5 allows all of the images, plots, graphs,... to be embedded in the html document instead of being written to individual files with links in the main document - which is what HTML does.
But, as the user was running a local notebook on a local SAS instance, HTML output rendered fine since the links to the files were local, so that worked.

So, as long as you're running a local SAS instance, you can set the 'output' key to HTML instead of HTML5 and you ought to be able to run with 9.3. I can't guarantee everything you try will work, but I expect it ought to be pretty compatible. I believe it should work with both IOM and STDIO access methods.

If you're using a remote connection, I don't allow that (check it in the code and fail).
How are you trying to run?

Tom

[tomweber-sas]

Those are for #182; switching back to that issue.

[tomweber-sas]

Any updates on this? Were you able to try it out?
Thanks,
Tom

[tomweber-sas]

Closing this as no response. If there are further questions on this, just reopen.

Thanks!
Tom