saspy 3.5.4

V3.5.4

on Python PyPI

This release only has a few enhancements in it. The symexist and symget methods have a fix for a macro named 'id' as there was a parsing issue with that one specific name. symput has a new option so you can specify the specific SAS quoting function to use, as the default doesn't always work. SASPy tries to remove as many SAS'isms from the python code, by defaulting behavior for the more usual cases. But, SAS has no end of options and varying statements to tweak and special case things, that, sometimes you just have to be able to specify specific SAS syntax for certain cases.
The other fix in this release was due to the SPDE engine not supporting (case in point from above!) the common OBS and FIRSTOBS data set options. It has it's own names for these, and sometimes, will allow OBS= and sometimes not. So, I've added support for this in the methods where I generate any of these options (head/tail) so that they work right with this engine as well as others. Also, as part of this, I found that head and tail weren't exactly honoring these options when specified in the DSOPTS of the SASdata object. Now the head and tail set is accurately based off of the result set defined by these options when in DSOPTS.