Add support for reading Stata .dta file format 119

[chrisyeh96]

Please add functionality to read format 119 .dta Stata files! See file format here: https://www.stata.com/help.cgi?dta#versions

Currently, even though Pandas can write format 119 files (

pandas/pandas/io/stata.py

Line 2663 in 612d3b2

dta version. Currently supports 117, 118 and 119

), it seems unable to read format 119 files (

pandas/pandas/io/stata.py

Lines 49 to 53 in 612d3b2

	_version_error = (
	"Version of given Stata file is not 104, 105, 108, "
	"111 (Stata 7SE), 113 (Stata 8/9), 114 (Stata 10/11), "
	"115 (Stata 12), 117 (Stata 13), or 118 (Stata 14)"
	)

).

[TomAugspurger]

Do we support writing 119? We raise when trying to use version=119 from DataFrame.to_stata` cc @bashtage

[bashtage]

No support for 119.

[bashtage]

I don't think writing for 119 has been implemented either, unless there have been some commits I haven't seen.

[bashtage]

pandas/pandas/io/stata.py

Line 2663 in 612d3b2

dta version. Currently supports 117, 118 and 119

Is only a comment about the StrL formatting, which was forward compat. The actual writer is not.

[TomAugspurger]

OK, that's my understanding too.

We'll keep this open as a general "support Stata 119" issue.

@chrisyeh96 are you interested in working on it? Even just sketching out what needs to be done would be helpful.

[chrisyeh96]

As much as I would love to contribute, unfortunately I won't have time for the next couple of months. I think it's probably better if someone else who actually has experience working with Stata file formats (I have zero experience on this matter) gives this a shot.

[TomAugspurger]

Certainly, but at this point you've expressed the most interest in this issue :) It may not be a priority for any of the past contributors to the stata code.

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