How to keep table alignment cookies in a result of source code evaluation?

[Martin Kampas]

Hi,

I am trying to produce a table with alignment cookies as in:

-----------------8><------------------
#+begin_src python :results value table replace
return [
    ['Key', 'Value'],
    ['<r>', '<l>'],
    None,
    ['Foo', 24],
    ['Bar', 42],
]
#+end_src
-----------------8><------------------

Unfortunately the alignment cookies do not make it to the resulting table:

-----------------8><------------------
#+RESULTS:
| Key | Value |
|-----+-------|
| Foo |    24 |
| Bar |    42 |
-----------------8><------------------

I was able to find out that they get dropped in the function "orgtbl-to-
generic", around the line where the ":ignore-list" property is manipulated.

I wasn't able to figure out a way to tell it not to do so.

The variable "org-org-with-special-rows" is not in effect here.

As a workaround I am formatting the table on Python side and using ":results 
raw".

Org mode version 9.7.34.

BR,
Martin