Hi Andrea,
Andrea Crotti <andrea.crott...@gmail.com> writes:
> I wanted to use sessions in python to do some nice literate programming
> and splitting functions, but it doesn't work as expected.
>
> Here below a very simple example in python and ruby, where in ruby
> everything seems to work well while in python it doesn't...
> And by the way, what is that org_babel_python_eoe? I can't find it
> documented anywhere in the manual...
>
This string is used by Babel to indicate when to stop waiting for output
form the interactive python process and return control to the user.
>
> I've read some time ago that python support for babel was a bit tricky,
> are there workarounds to make it work anyway?
>
This is true, in addition to being a language which is dependent upon
whitespace characters, python has been tricky due to the many
independent inferior python modes (python.el, python-mode.el, etc...)
and to the fact that I personally and not very familiar with the
language.
I've just pushed up a patch which should improve upon the python session
behavior. After this patch your example returns the following
results...
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#+begin_src python :session :results silent
def var(x):
return float(x ** 2)
#+end_src
#+begin_src python :session :result value
def var2(x):
return x ** 2 * var(x)
var2(10)
#+end_src
#+results:
: 10000.0
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Please let me know if you notice any other problematic behavior.
Thanks -- Eric
--
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
