Urgent need: PYTHON app saving Version 16 variable views as .sav files

[Art Kendall]

I haven't had time yet to get PYTHON under my belt.  However I believe
this should be a straight forward PYTHON application.

I have a few hundred files (several years for each US State). I would
like to concatenate the variable view information into a single file.
What I would like to end up with is a system file with a variable for
the name of the source file and variables for the name, type, . . .
decimals.
The result would be one file with "stacked" variable views.

If there were a PYTHON wrapper, it would take each file in a
list,  extract the variable view information, add a column containing
the name of the file, and concatenate the info into a system data file
as a "master file".

  source          Position Name    Type . . . decimals
AL2004.sas7bdat  1        ID      string .  .   .
AL2004.sas7bdat  2        State   string .  .   .
AK2004.sas7bdat  3        County   string .  .   .
AK2003.sas7bdat  4        Zip      numeric .  .   .
WV2005.sas7bdat 500       Math     numeric . . .

Please let me know if you can do this.
Shall we say the same rate as last time?

Also please send me your SSN and address for the 1099.


Art Kendall
Social Research Consultants

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[Art Kendall]

OOPS again that was *not* intended for the list.   Working under a a lot
of pressure and need a cup of coffee!

Art

Art Kendall wrote:

> I haven't had time yet to get PYTHON under my belt.  However I believe
> this should be a straight forward PYTHON application.
>
> I have a few hundred files (several years for each US State). I would
> like to concatenate the variable view information into a single file.
> What I would like to end up with is a system file with a variable for
> the name of the source file and variables for the name, type, . . .
> decimals.
> The result would be one file with "stacked" variable views.
>
> If there were a PYTHON wrapper, it would take each file in a
> list,  extract the variable view information, add a column containing
> the name of the file, and concatenate the info into a system data file
> as a "master file".
>
>  source          Position Name    Type . . . decimals
> AL2004.sas7bdat  1        ID      string .  .   .
> AL2004.sas7bdat  2        State   string .  .   .
> AK2004.sas7bdat  3        County   string .  .   .
> AK2003.sas7bdat  4        Zip      numeric .  .   .
> WV2005.sas7bdat 500       Math     numeric . . .
>
> Please let me know if you can do this.
> Shall we say the same rate as last time?
>
> Also please send me your SSN and address for the 1099.
>
>
> Art Kendall
> Social Research Consultants
>
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