You cannot use Python in SAS OnDemand for Academics, but you can use it -- via a Jupyter Notebook -- in SAS University Edition. See this blog post for details. Excerpt:
With the December 2017 update, SAS University Edition now includes the SASPy package, available in its Jupyter Notebook interface. If you're keeping track, you know that SAS University Edition has long had support for Jupyter Notebook. With that, you can write and run SAS programs in a notebook-style environment. But until now, you could not use that Jupyter Notebook to run Python programs. With the latest update, you can -- and you can use the SASPy library to drive SAS features like a Python coder.
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