Re: [PATCH] ob-python results handling for dicts, dataframes, arrays, and plots

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Jack Kamm <jackkamm@gmail.com> writes:

> I attach a 2nd patch implementing this. It also makes ":results table"
> the default return type for dict. (Use ":results verbatim" to get the
> dict as a string instead).

Thanks!

>>  #+begin_src python :results list
>>    return {"a": 1, "b": 2}
>>  #+end_src
>>
>>  #+RESULTS:
>>  - a :: 1
>>  - b :: 2
>
> This seems harder, and may require more widespread changes beyond
> ob-python. In particular, I think we'd need to change
> `org-babel-insert-result' so that it can call `org-list-to-org' with a
> list of type "descriptive" instead of "unordered" here:
>
> https://git.sr.ht/~bzg/org-mode/tree/cc435cba71a99ee7b12676be3b6e1211a9cb7285/item/lisp/ob-core.el#L2535

Actually, (org-list-to-org '(unordered ("a :: b") ("c :: d")))
will just work.

We do not support nested lists when transforming output anyway. So,
unordered/descriptive does not matter in practice.

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