How to get Text from b'Text' in the pandas object type after using read_sas?

Question

I\'m trying to read the data from .sas7bdat format of SAS using pandas function read_sas:

import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_sas(\'D:/input/houses.sas7bdat\', form         


        

Answer 1

First, figure out your sas dataset encoding. In SAS, run proc contents on the dataset. Check the "Encoding". In my case, my encoding was "latin1 Western (ISO)". Then enter your encoding as such:

df = pd.read_sas('filename', format = 'sas7bdat', encoding = 'latin-1')