Importing SPSS dataset into Python

Question

Is there any way to import SPSS dataset into Python, preferably NumPy recarray format? I have looked around but could not find any answer.

Joon

Answer 1

SPSS has an extensive integration with Python, but that is meant to be used with SPSS (now known as IBM SPSS Statistics). There is an SPSS ODBC driver that could be used with Python ODBC support to read a sav file.