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SAS DOC update - add documentation for sas_read(format='sas7bdat') #16420

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Expand Up @@ -577,9 +577,8 @@ Data Interop
~~~~~~~~~~~~

pandas provides a :func:`read_sas` method that can read SAS data saved in
the XPORT format. The ability to read SAS's binary format is planned for a
future release.

the XPORT or SAS7BDAT binary format.

.. code-block:: none

libname xportout xport 'transport-file.xpt';
Expand All @@ -591,6 +590,15 @@ future release.
.. code-block:: python

df = pd.read_sas('transport-file.xpt')
df = pd.read_sas('binary-file.sas7bdat')

You can also specify the file format directly. By default, pandas will try
to infer the file format based on its extension.

.. code-block:: python

df = pd.read_sas('transport-file.xpt', format='xport')
df = pd.read_sas('binary-file.sas7bdat', format='sas7bdat')

XPORT is a relatively limited format and the parsing of it is not as
optimized as some of the other pandas readers. An alternative way
Expand All @@ -605,3 +613,4 @@ to interop data between SAS and pandas is to serialize to csv.

In [9]: %time df = pd.read_csv('big.csv')
Wall time: 4.86 s