These comments are for other SAS Programmers who want to run saspy in Anaconda3 in Windows 10 using a local BASE SAS installation. I found the existing documentation and posts confusing, but I think I've managed to navigate it in the end...
Download Anaconda and install using the recommended option
Note...Your computer may have mutiple versions of Python installed and configured various ways.The Anaconda distribution takes care of most of the setup problems by installing all this within an App
Verify the following:
(base) C:\Users\YOURWINDOWSNAME>python --version
Python 3.6.3 :: Anaconda custom (64-bit)
From the Anaconda DOS prompt (It's an app in your Anaconda3 folder): (base) C:\> pip install saspy
That'll install the saspy package. If you want the SAS kernel too, type pip install sas_kernel. Then you will be able to use the SAS kernel in Jupyter (i.e. write SAS code from a Jupyter notebook - cool eh?)
Now that the saspy package is installed, you have to add the directory that contains the file sspiauth.dll to our Path variable. This file is located at ~\SASHome\SASFoundation\9.4\core\sasext
Update your Path in Windows 10...You need to have Admin rights
In Windows 10 > From the Power User Task Menu > click System > Advanced Settings > Environment Variables > Edit a variable labelled "Path". There are already several folders in a list displayed - Add ~\SASHome\SASFoundation\9.4\core\sasext to the list.
As a check, if you open the cmd line in DOS and type c:\>path you will see something like:
PATH=C:\Oracle\product\11.2.0\client_X64\bin;C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\windows\system32;C:\windows;C:\windows\System32\Wbem;C:\windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;F:\SAS\SASHome\SASFoundation\9.4\ets\sasexe;F:\SAS\SASHome\Secure\ccme4;F:\SAS\SASHome\SASFoundation\9.4\core\sasext;C:\Users\YOURWINDOWSNAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;
Or, Open Base SAS and run the following to find the PATH – The results will be the same
data _null_;
x=sysget('PATH');
put x;
run;
Now you use IDLE to edit saspy.cfg - It's in C:\Users\YOURWINDOWSNAME\AppData\Local\Continuum\Anaconda3 (somewhere...).
You will need to go to ~\SAS\SASHome\SASDeploymentManager\9.4\products\~ and make updates according to the versions you see. Note that '\\' means '\' when you are setting paths in your Python editor
The saspy.cfg file looks like
…scroll down to the config names below and make some changes
SAS_config_names=['winlocal','winiomwin','winiomIWA']
…scroll down to the path files below
# build out a local classpath variable to use below for Windows clients
cpW = "F:\\SAS\\SASHome\\SASDeploymentManager\\9.4\\products\\deploywiz__NUMBER__prt__xx__sp0__1\\deploywiz\\sas.svc.connection.jar"
cpW += ";F:\\SAS\\SASHome\\SASDeploymentManager\\9.4\\products\\deploywiz__NUMBER__prt__xx__sp0__1\\deploywiz\\log4j.jar"
cpW += ";F:\\SAS\\SASHome\\SASDeploymentManager\\9.4\\products\\deploywiz__NUMBER__prt__xx__sp0__1\\deploywiz\\sas.security.sspi.jar"
cpW += ";F:\\SAS\\SASHome\\SASDeploymentManager\\9.4\\products\\deploywiz__NUMBER__prt__xx__sp0__1\\deploywiz\\sas.core.jar"
cpW += ";C:\\ProgramData\\Anaconda3\\Lib\\site-packages\\saspy\\java\\saspyiom.jar"
…cpW is aliased as winlocal (see below)
winlocal = {'java' : 'java',
'encoding' : 'windows-1252',
'classpath' : cpW
}
The following Python code will start a session: sas = saspy.SASsession(cfgname='winlocal')
You can test your installation using
import saspy
import saspy.sascfg
sas = saspy.SASsession(cfgname='winlocal')
cars = sas.sasdata("CARS","SASHELP")
cars.describe()
and you should see a SASHELP data set about cars.
- Bread Crumbs and Circuses for all
Hello,
FYI - Here is a link to my paper: https://www.lexjansen.com/scsug/2018/McCarthy-How-to-configure-Python-and-SASPy.pdf . It describes the setup using BASE SAS on a PC. Note that it's also possible to connect Jupyter to a Linux server (but it's a little weirder). Use PyCharm or "Eric" IDLE to edit C:\Anaconda\Lib\site-packages\saspy\sascfg.py. The key lines of your sascfg.py file should look like look like those below. Remember you need to copy the jars to your PC and then define the path to the jars so that your PC and server can talk:
How to connect a PC to a Linux server - Here's what I did anyway
...
SAS_config_names = ['winiomlinux']
...
# build out a local classpath variable to use below for Windows clients
cpW = "C:\\Program Files\\SASHome\\SASDeploymentManager\\9.4\\products\\deploywiz__94504__prt__xx__sp0__1\\deploywiz\\sas.svc.connection.jar"
cpW += ";C:\\Program Files\\SASHome\\SASDeploymentManager\\9.4\\products\\deploywiz__94504__prt__xx__sp0__1\\deploywiz\\log4j.jar"
cpW += ";C:\\Program Files\\SASHome\\SASDeploymentManager\\9.4\\products\\deploywiz__94504__prt__xx__sp0__1\\deploywiz\\sas.security.sspi.jar"
cpW += ";C:\\Program Files\\SASHome\\SASDeploymentManager\\9.4\\products\\deploywiz__94504__prt__xx__sp0__1\\deploywiz\\sas.core.jar"
cpW += ";C:\\Anaconda\\Lib\\site-packages\\saspy\\java\\saspyiom.jar"
...
winiomlinux = {'java': 'java',
'iomhost': 'YOUR DNS HOSTNAME',
'iomport': 8591,
'encoding': 'latin1',
'classpath': cpW
}
Good Luck 
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