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Allow SAS variable names to begin with an underscore #335

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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions pyreadstat/_readstat_writer.pyx
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Expand Up @@ -653,8 +653,8 @@ cdef void initial_checks(bint is_pandas, bint is_polars, dict variable_value_lab
raise PyreadstatError("variable name '%s' is of type %s and it must be str (not starting with numbers!)" % (variable_name, str(type(variable_name))))
if len(variable_name) == 0:
raise PyreadstatError("variable names must be non-empty strings, not starting with numbers")
if not variable_name[0].isalpha():
raise PyreadstatError("variable name '%s' starts with an illegal (non-alphabetic) character: '%s' (ordinal %s)" % (variable_name, variable_name[0], ord(variable_name[0])))
if not (variable_name[0].isalpha() or variable_name[0] == "_"):
raise PyreadstatError("variable name '%s' starts with an illegal (neither alphabetic nor an underscore) character: '%s' (ordinal %s)" % (variable_name, variable_name[0], ord(variable_name[0])))
if " " in variable_name:
raise PyreadstatError("variable name '%s' contains a space, which is not allowed" % variable_name)

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