Wrote a new library - Comments and suggestions please!

alex23 wuwei23 at gmail.com
Tue Sep 27 22:22:49 EDT 2011


Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt... at pearwood.info> wrote:
> I googled on "SAS PROC FREQ" and found this:
>
> http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/procstat/63104/HTML/defau...
>
> All the words are in English, but I have no idea what the function does, how
> you would call it, and what it returns. Would it have been so hard to show
> a couple of examples?

I'm currently arms deep in converting a handful of randomisation
algorithms written in SAS into Python. Pretty much ALL of the magic
happens behind cryptic SAS calls like this. I'm having more success
reverse-engineering the _results_ they produce and building something
Pythonic and comprehensible.




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