wow, that is some wizardry there! I did not know you could do a return value that way! or get an hline from None! thanks!
William Henney writes: > A simpler solution is to just use None, which gets automatically converted > to an hline by org-babel: > > #+BEGIN_SRC python :return mytable > NROWS, NCOLS = 6, 4 > mytable = [] > mytable.append(['A', 'B', 'C', 'D']) # Table header > mytable.append(None) # hline > for irow in range(NROWS): > mytable.append([icol**irow for icol in range(NCOLS)]) > mytable.append(None) # hline > #+END_SRC > > #+RESULTS: > | A | B | C | D | > |---+---+----+-----| > | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | > | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | > | 0 | 1 | 4 | 9 | > | 0 | 1 | 8 | 27 | > | 0 | 1 | 16 | 81 | > | 0 | 1 | 32 | 243 | > |---+---+----+-----| > > Will > > > On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 2:07 PM, John Kitchin <jkitc...@andrew.cmu.edu> > wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> In emacs-lisp, I can get a table as output that has a horizontal line >> in it like this: >> >> (append '((name scopus-id h-index n-docs n-citations)) >> '(hline) >> (some expression that generates a list)) >> >> The first row is header names, then a horizontal line, followed by a row >> for each thing of interest. This seems to work because the result is an >> emacs-lisp "array". >> >> I cannot figure out if this is possible in a Python block though. So far >> my experiments have failed because I don't know how to make an hline >> symbol in a Python array. Any kind of string just shows as a row. Any >> thoughts on if this is possible? >> >> thanks, >> >> -- >> Professor John Kitchin >> Doherty Hall A207F >> Department of Chemical Engineering >> Carnegie Mellon University >> Pittsburgh, PA 15213 >> 412-268-7803 >> @johnkitchin >> http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu >> >> -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu