7.17.2.2. statsmodels.iolib.foreign.StataWriter¶
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class
statsmodels.iolib.foreign.StataWriter(fname, data, convert_dates=None, encoding='latin-1', byteorder=None)[source]¶ A class for writing Stata binary dta files from array-like objects
Parameters: fname : file path or buffer
Where to save the dta file.
data : array-like
Array-like input to save. Pandas objects are also accepted.
convert_dates : dict
Dictionary mapping column of datetime types to the stata internal format that you want to use for the dates. Options are ‘tc’, ‘td’, ‘tm’, ‘tw’, ‘th’, ‘tq’, ‘ty’. Column can be either a number or a name.
encoding : str
Default is latin-1. Note that Stata does not support unicode.
byteorder : str
Can be “>”, “<”, “little”, or “big”. The default is None which uses sys.byteorder
Returns: writer : StataWriter instance
The StataWriter instance has a write_file method, which will write the file to the given fname.
Examples
>>> writer = StataWriter('./data_file.dta', data) >>> writer.write_file()
Or with dates
>>> writer = StataWriter('./date_data_file.dta', date, {2 : 'tw'}) >>> writer.write_file()
Methods
__init__(fname, data[, convert_dates, ...])write_file()Attributes
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