Python SAP RFC module seems inactive – last (insignificant ) commit 2 years ago – but may serve you: Pysaprfc is a wrapper around SAP librfc (librfc32.dll on Windows, librfccm.so or librfc.so on Linux). It uses the excellent ctypes extension package by Thomas Heller to access librfc and to define SAP compatible datatypes. Modern SAP … Read more
There is also a built-in function for this task: variable = lines( itab_name ). Just like the “pure” ABAP syntax described by IronGoofy, the function “lines( )” writes the number of lines of table itab_name into the variable.
Is it (always) compiled? ABAP is “compiled” into a sort of byte-code (called “load” for historical reasons) that is then executed by a virtual machine inside the kernel. You can compare this with Java, with one big difference: The load is not machine-independent, but optimized for the target machine type. This means that in a … Read more
First, SAP is so vast you will never be able to know every part of it. There are so many functionnal subjects and technologies that this is mind-numbing. Courses can be used either for a first introduction (but this is costly for such a use) or for extremely advanced subject (better). SAP is a full … Read more
I have worked with SAP since 1998. SAP is a type of software called ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) that large companies use to manage their day to day affairs. On the macro, the software can be split into two categories: Technical and Functional Let’s go Technical first, as it answers the “What is ABAP” part … Read more