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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Did my solution work? Were you able to invoke SAS as you needed?Maurice Reeves– Maurice Reeves2014-06-24 13:07:01 +00:00Commented Jun 24, 2014 at 13:07
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2@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– user37673272014-06-25 08:53:33 +00:00Commented Jun 25, 2014 at 8:53
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Excellent! I'm glad you were able to get it work for you. Best of luck with SAS!Maurice Reeves– Maurice Reeves2014-06-26 19:38:08 +00:00Commented Jun 26, 2014 at 19:38
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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:
You need to tell SAS where to find the AUTOEXEC file
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!
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Joe
Note that if you are running this in Unix, the above will work, but if you're running it under Windows, you need
-sysin before the sas_script_path.
Maurice Reeves
Ah good point. Haven't done it in Windows forever. I'll amend my answer to include sysin.
Joe
I think unix specifically does not use it though I can't verify that at the moment. SAS is weird.
Maurice Reeves
I agree. It's an odd bird. When I describe SAS to other programmers who've never dealt with it they look at me like I'm lying.