I think this is a bug in jupyter-org-client.el in this function:

(defun jupyter-org--add-result (req result)
  (cond
   ((jupyter-org-request-silent-p req)
    (unless (equal (jupyter-org-request-silent-p req) "none")
      (message "%s" (org-element-interpret-data result))))
   ((jupyter-org-request-async-p req)
    (jupyter-org--clear-request-id req)
    (jupyter-org--do-insert-result req result))
   (t
    (push result (jupyter-org-request-results req)))))

The problem is that when the jupyter block is executed to define the variable in the python header, it is run with a "silent" results param. The function above is responsible for adding the results to the jupyter-org-request struct, and here when it sees the results are silent, it does not do that, so the results are nil, which is why you see what you see.

I don't think that behavior is correct. It isn't quite right to just remove the first block though, at least in this case. The result in this function is already structured as a fixed-width results element intended to be interpreted as a results string, and not the numeric value returned. So the fix is probably upstream from this.

I am not sure what the fix is for this. The code path from C-cC-c to executing the code, handling the request to the kernel, getting results and to the output is very hard to follow for me. I would post an issue at https://github.com/nnicandro/emacs-jupyter/issues.
 
John

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On Sat, Sep 4, 2021 at 4:22 PM Rafael <rvf0068@gmail.com> wrote:

I am using emacs-jupyter (https://github.com/nnicandro/emacs-jupyter),
and I have just noticed that results from a block are not sent to
another block. I think it has to do with this issue
https://github.com/nnicandro/emacs-jupyter/issues/222. Can somebody
suggest a workaround? (I actually want to use the output from a kernel
different from python, but since the problem happens also with the python
kernel I'm using it as an example).

  #+name: atest
  #+begin_src jupyter-python :session test
1+1
  #+end_src

  #+RESULTS: graphst
  : 2

  #+begin_src python :var adjs=atest
adjs
  #+end_src

  #+RESULTS
  : nil