statadict.parse_stata_dict¶
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statadict.parse_stata_dict(file: str) → statadict.base.StataDict¶ Parses Stata dictionary file and returns object containing column data as attributes.
‘names’, ‘colspecs’ and ‘widths’ attributes can be used with ‘pandas.read_fwf()’.
- Parameters
file – Stata dictionary file (usually .dct extension)
- Type
str
- Returns
Object with column data as attributes
- Return type