Hi Seth,
This is probably a combination of both the use of comint-mode which
indirects interaction with the python process through a temporary Emacs
buffer, in combination with the fact that Emacs must explicitly wait for
the interactive python process to return output until a special
I have recently been trying out the src executing capabilities of orgmode. I
have been confused why a python session takes significantly longer to
execute than a non python session. For example
#+begin_src python
return 2+2
#+end_src
executes pretty quickly, but
#+begin_src python :session test