sas_to_polars

A light Python package for converting and processing SAS datasets (.sas7bdat files) into a Polars DataFrame. Designed for high-performance data transformation by leveraging parallel computing.

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Installation
• Usage

Overview

This package provides a fast and convenient way to read SAS datasets into Polars DataFrames. Converting SAS datasets in Python often requires specific libraries. For large datasets, the conversion process can be a bottleneck. This package addresses this by leveraging concurrent programming to speed up the conversion.

sas_to_polars allows users to quickly transform their SAS data into the efficient Polars DataFrame structure for further analysis and manipulation in Python.

Installation

This package requires Python 3.8 or higher.

The following Python libraries are necessary and will be installed as dependencies:

• pyreadstat: For reading SAS datasets.
• polars: For high-performance data manipulation.
• pyarrow: For efficient data conversion (required by Polars).

You can install sas_to_polars using pip:

pip install sas-to-polars  # Replace with your actual package name on PyPI

After running this command, pip will resolve and install the required dependencies (pyreadstat and polars) along with your sas_to_polars package.

To verify the installation, you can run: python -c "import sas_to_polars

If no output is returned, the installation was successful.

Usage

The primary function in this package is sas_to_polars. Here's how to use it.

from sas_to_polars import sas_to_polars

df = sas_to_polars(filepath="path/to/dataset/data.sas7bdat")
print(df.head())

The sas_to_polars function accepts the following optional parameters:

• chunksize: int = 10_000: The number of rows to read in each chunk during parallel processing.
• processes: int = mp.cpu_count() // 4: The number of parallel processes to use for conversion. Defaults to a quarter of the available CPU cores.
• use_lazy: bool = True: Whether to use Polars lazy loading for potentially more efficient out-of-memory operations.
• unordered: bool = False: Whether to maintain the original order of columns from the SAS dataset.

For more detailed information about the sas_to_polars function and its parameters, you can use Python's built-in help function:

help(sas_to_polars)

Example Dataset Output

Shape: (3, 3)
┌─────┬─────────┬──────┐
│ id  ┆ name    ┆ age  │
│ --- ┆ ---     ┆ ---  │
│ f64 ┆ str     ┆ f64  │
╞═════╪═════════╪══════╡
│ 1.0 ┆ Alice   ┆ 30.0 │
│ 2.0 ┆ Bob     ┆ 35.0 │
│ 3.0 ┆ Charlie ┆ 40.0 │
└─────┴─────────┴──────┘

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.