spss.PyInvokeSpss.IsXDriven Function (Python)

spss.PyInvokeSpss.IsXDriven(). Checks to see how the IBM® SPSS® Statistics backend is being run. The result is 1 if Python is controlling the IBM SPSS Statistics backend or 0 if IBM SPSS Statistics is controlling the backend.

Example

import spss
spss.Submit("""
GET FILE 
 '/examples/data/employee data.sav'. 
""")
isxd = spss.PyInvokeSpss.IsXDriven()
if isxd==1:
  print("Python is driving IBM SPSS Statistics.")
else:
  print("IBM SPSS Statistics is driving Python.")