SAS Viya is the latest enhancement of the SAS Platform. Since this release you can, as a Python programmer, access data and procedures available on the SAS Viya platform.
This can be done by inserting Python Nodes in your data flows but this can also be done thanks to the SWAT python package (SAS Scripting Wrapper for Analytics Transfer).
What does that mean? You can do with Python everything you can do in SAS: load/unload data in memory, doing parallel processing, accessing databases data via SAS libraries, working in a secured environment, use remote server. etc.
This tips and tricks is designed for people who know already Python, SQL, Pandas and who would like to access SAS Viya from Python.
In this tips and tricks, we will first make a summary of the most important things discussed in the introduction SAS Viya for SAS users tips and tricks. Then we will dive into SWAT package in order to :
You have some Python experience and would like to access SAS Viya from Python.
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