FIX: Enable fixed width strings to be read from Stata 13 (117) files

doc/source/v0.14.1.txt

@@ -220,6 +220,8 @@ Bug Fixes
 - Bug where ``nanops._has_infs`` doesn't work with many dtypes
   (:issue:`7357`)
 - Bug in ``StataReader.data`` where reading a 0-observation dta failed (:issue:`7369`)
+- Bug in when reading Stata 13 (117) files containing fixed width strings (:issue:`7360`)
+- Bug in when writing Stata files where the encoding was ignored (:issue:`7286`)
 
 
 

pandas/io/stata.py

@@ -512,8 +512,10 @@ def _read_header(self):
             try:
                 i = 0
                 for typ in typlist:
-                    if typ <= 2045 or typ == 32768:
-                        self.typlist[i] = None
+                    if typ <= 2045:
+                        self.typlist[i] = typ
+                    elif typ == 32768:
+                        raise ValueError("Long strings are not supported")
                     else:
                         self.typlist[i] = self.TYPE_MAP_XML[typ]
                     i += 1
@@ -1326,7 +1328,10 @@ def _write_data_nodates(self):
                         var = _pad_bytes('', typ)
                     if len(var) < typ:
                         var = _pad_bytes(var, typ)
-                    self._write(var)
+                    if compat.PY3:
+                        self._write(var)
+                    else:
+                        self._write(var.encode(self._encoding))
                 else:
                     try:
                         self._file.write(struct.pack(byteorder + TYPE_MAP[typ],
@@ -1356,7 +1361,10 @@ def _write_data_dates(self):
                 if typ <= 244:  # we've got a string
                     if len(var) < typ:
                         var = _pad_bytes(var, typ)
-                    self._write(var)
+                    if compat.PY3:
+                        self._write(var)
+                    else:
+                        self._write(var.encode(self._encoding))
                 else:
                     self._file.write(struct.pack(byteorder+TYPE_MAP[typ], var))
 

pandas/io/tests/test_stata.py

@@ -60,11 +60,13 @@ def setUp(self):
         self.dta14_113 = os.path.join(self.dirpath, 'stata5_113.dta')
         self.dta14_114 = os.path.join(self.dirpath, 'stata5_114.dta')
         self.dta14_115 = os.path.join(self.dirpath, 'stata5_115.dta')
+        self.dta14_117 = os.path.join(self.dirpath, 'stata5_117.dta')
 
         self.csv15 = os.path.join(self.dirpath, 'stata6.csv')
         self.dta15_113 = os.path.join(self.dirpath, 'stata6_113.dta')
         self.dta15_114 = os.path.join(self.dirpath, 'stata6_114.dta')
         self.dta15_115 = os.path.join(self.dirpath, 'stata6_115.dta')
+        self.dta15_117 = os.path.join(self.dirpath, 'stata6_117.dta')
 
     def read_dta(self, file):
         return read_stata(file, convert_dates=True)
@@ -281,6 +283,11 @@ def test_encoding(self):
             self.assertEqual(result, expected)
             self.assertIsInstance(result, unicode)
 
+        with tm.ensure_clean() as path:
+            encoded.to_stata(path,encoding='latin-1', write_index=False)
+            reread_encoded = read_stata(path, encoding='latin-1')
+            tm.assert_frame_equal(encoded, reread_encoded)
+
     def test_read_write_dta11(self):
         original = DataFrame([(1, 2, 3, 4)],
                              columns=['good', compat.u('b\u00E4d'), '8number', 'astringwithmorethan32characters______'])
@@ -354,9 +361,12 @@ def test_read_write_reread_dta14(self):
         parsed_114.index.name = 'index'
         parsed_115 = self.read_dta(self.dta14_115)
         parsed_115.index.name = 'index'
+        parsed_117 = self.read_dta(self.dta14_117)
+        parsed_117.index.name = 'index'
 
         tm.assert_frame_equal(parsed_114, parsed_113)
         tm.assert_frame_equal(parsed_114, parsed_115)
+        tm.assert_frame_equal(parsed_114, parsed_117)
 
         with tm.ensure_clean() as path:
             parsed_114.to_stata(path, {'date_td': 'td'})
@@ -375,10 +385,12 @@ def test_read_write_reread_dta15(self):
         parsed_113 = self.read_dta(self.dta15_113)
         parsed_114 = self.read_dta(self.dta15_114)
         parsed_115 = self.read_dta(self.dta15_115)
+        parsed_117 = self.read_dta(self.dta15_117)
 
         tm.assert_frame_equal(expected, parsed_114)
         tm.assert_frame_equal(parsed_113, parsed_114)
         tm.assert_frame_equal(parsed_114, parsed_115)
+        tm.assert_frame_equal(parsed_114, parsed_117)
 
     def test_timestamp_and_label(self):
         original = DataFrame([(1,)], columns=['var'])