I am working on a project where I need to collect daily values for variables where each day is in it's own csv named by the date. I want to create a date variable that is based on the file name so that I can combine all of these daily data sets. For some reason, none of the string editing functions in stata are recognized by my version 16 (which is a whole other issue in itself and I haven't been able to find from where I can install these) so I decided to call a python script that can take care of the string editing for me. I can get my variables into stata but I cant find anywhere on the stata documentation for python integration how to actually get the processed text out. I know they can be viewed using python describe but how do I actually access them so I can create the date variable in stata?