PyStata

Stata 17 introduces a concept we call PyStata. PyStata is a term that encompasses all the ways Stata and Python can interact.

Stata 16 featured the ability to call Python code from Stata. Stata 17 greatly expands on this by allowing you to invoke Stata from a stand-alone Python environment via a new pystata Python package.

You can access Stata and Mata conveniently in an IPython kernel-based environment (for example, Jupyter Notebook and console and Jupyter Lab and console); in other environments that support the IPython kernel (for example, Spyder IDE and PyCharm IDE); or when accessing Python from a command line (for example, Windows Command Prompt, macOS terminal, Unix terminal, and Python’s IDLE).