topic Re: Access remote SAS 7.1 libraries in Python Notebook in SAS Programming

Access remote SAS 7.1 libraries in Python Notebook

maysha2854 — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 17:51:07 GMT

I'm new to SAS & use SAS EG 7.1 remotely. I have few datasets in my SAS libraries. I would like to access those datasets in my Python code which I run locally.

Would like to know how we can connect remote SAS with Python?

I will be highly obliged,If you could please help me with each steps to get this.

I tried Googling but couldn't get it up and running.

Thank you in advance.

Re: Access remote SAS 7.1 libraries in Python Notebook

ChrisNZ — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 23:53:45 GMT

Never used python to connect to SAS so can't reply directly.

But be mindful that EG is just a client, like python. You need to connect to the server.

Re: Access remote SAS 7.1 libraries in Python Notebook

Tom — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 02:03:50 GMT

If you are using the saspy package it has instructions for how to connect to a SAS application server. That is what Enterprise Guide is connecting to. Talk to your SAS administrator to get the details for your server.

Re: Access remote SAS 7.1 libraries in Python Notebook

sastpw — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 16:43:19 GMT

Instructions are right here: https://sassoftware.github.io/saspy/install.html#iom-using-java you will be using the remote verison.

Repo is: https://github.com/sassoftware/saspy

and examples are here: https://github.com/sassoftware/saspy-examples/tree/master/SAS_contrib

saspy can connect to the same workspace server that your EG client connects to. As @Tom mentioned, it sounds like you might need some help from your SAS admin.