A CLI tool to convert a Stata .dta file into a .csv file. Relies on pandas.

dta_to_csv.py

"""
Title: dta_to_csv.py
Author: Andrea Pasqualini

This CLI tool converts a Stata .dta file into a .csv file. Python3 and pandas
are dependencies. It does not return anything, internally. It saves on disk a
file with CSV extension that has the same name as the input DTA file.

USAGE
-----
python dta_to_csv.py dtafile.dta

"""

from sys import argv
from pandas import read_stata

if __name__ == '__main__':
    dtaFile = argv[1]
    fName = dtaFile[ : -4 ]
    csvFile = fName + '.csv'
    read_stata( dtaFile ).to_csv( csvFile )