ts to True Attempt to convert dates to Pandas datetime values. Note that some rarely used SAS date formats may be unsupported. blank_missing : bool, defaults to True Convert empty strings to missing values (SAS uses blanks to indicate missing character variables). chunksize : int, defaults to None Return SAS7BDATReader object for iterations, returns chunks with given number of lines. encoding : str, 'infer', defaults to None String encoding acc. to Python standard encodings, encoding='infer' tries to detect the encoding from the file header, encoding=None will leave the data in binary format. convert_text : bool, defaults to True If False, text variables are left as raw bytes. convert_header_text : bool, defaults to True If False, header text, including column names, are left as raw bytes. r3