Ethan Ligon <li...@are.berkeley.edu> writes: > The results from python code blocks aren't correctly returned as tables > when they should be. To wit: > > #+begin_src python :results output table > print "A,B,C" > #+end_src > > #+results: > : A,B,C > > where I'd expect to see > > #+results: > | A | B | C | >
In many languages ":results output" will always return a scalar, the thinking being, that what was printed to STDOUT was a series of strings and thus should be inserted into the buffer as a string, rather than for example #+begin_src python return [1, 2, 3] #+end_src #+results: | 1 | 2 | 3 | in which case the value returned is a list, and is thus inserted into the buffer as a list. There are currently options for printing to standard out and having the results inserted as a list. For example, #+begin_src python :results output raw print "| 1 | 2 | 3 |" #+end_src #+results: | 1 | 2 | 3 | That said, I agree that in examples like yours above the returned value should be a table given that the ":results table" is explicitly stated. I've just pushed up a patch after which the following is possible. #+begin_src python :results output table print "[A, B, C]" #+end_src #+results: | A | B | C | Note that your exact example above would still not return a list as the printed value does not look like a python list. Cheers -- Eric -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
