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From: Viktor Rosenfeld <listuser36@googlemail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Tangling without clutter?
Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 07:25:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120315062547.GA28824@kenny.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44B0EAE8544C834188E8790873CDE1CC3EA8C0@ARCEXCHANGE.arc.local>

Hi Jos'h,

have you looked at the :session header argument? I use it to define
environment variables in bash that are used in later code blocks.

Something like this:

#+BEGIN_SRC sh :session foo
export W="world."
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS:

#+BEGIN_SRC sh :session foo
echo Hello $W
#+END_SRC

If these code blocks are executed in order, the latter returns "Hello
world."

Not sure though, how it interacts with Python.

Cheers,
Viktor

Jos'h Fuller wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> > > It seems like I almost need some variant of the "tangle" argument to
> > > :noweb where syntax references are expanded for evaluation, but not
> > > for anything else.
> > >
> > 
> > Why would you want to tangle out a python src file with an un-expanded
> > noweb reference?  Either way, who am I to judge.  I've just added a new
> > "eval" option to the noweb header argument which will expand noweb
> > references *only* during interactive evaluation.
> 
> Please allow me to explain, I think it's a legitimate use case...
> 
> I would like to provide a listing of a Python function, then later in the document show a demonstration of how it's used. I just did this when preparing some documentation for another programmer who is porting an application between languages. 
> 
> So I listed the function, then after a discussion, I had a demonstration of how to use the function. I wanted the output from the demonstration to be "live", generated from the demonstration code. Therefore, I needed to reference the function defined above. Unfortunately, the reference was expanded during export so that the same block of code appeared /twice/, presenting the reader with something like this:
> 
> : Here's a function:
> :  def gorking():
> :   return "gork"
> :
> : Here's how to use the function:
> :  def gorking():
> :   return "gork"
> :
> :  print gorking()
> : 
> : Which gives us:
> :  gork
> 
> As you can see, it's rather clumsy to have the function in the output twice. It's not too bad for this example, but anything more than a few lines becomes quite a distraction! This would have been preferable:
> 
> : Here's a function:
> :  def gorking():
> :   return "gork"
> :
> : Here's how to use the function:
> :  <<function-gorking>>
> : 
> :  print gorking()
> : 
> : Which gives us:
> :  gork
> 
> The original %.org file would look like this:
> 
> : Here's a function:
> :  #+name: function-gorking
> :  #+begin_src python :tangle yes
> :  def gorking():
> :   return "gork"
> :  #+end_src
> :
> : Here's how to use the function:
> :  #+name: function-gorking-demo
> :  #+begin_src python :tangle yes
> :  <<function-gorking>>
> :
> :  print gorking()
> :  #+end_src
> : 
> : Which gives us:
> :  #+results: function-gorking-demo
> :  gork
> 
> Does that explain it better?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Jos'h
> 
> 
> 

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2012-03-15  6:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-14 17:34 Tangling without clutter? Jos'h Fuller
2012-03-14 18:22 ` Thomas S. Dye
2012-03-14 18:39   ` Jos'h Fuller
2012-03-14 19:13     ` Eric Schulte
2012-03-14 19:35       ` Jos'h Fuller
2012-03-14 18:34         ` Eric Schulte
2012-03-14 22:08           ` Jos'h Fuller
2012-03-14 20:52             ` Eric Schulte
2012-03-15  6:25         ` Viktor Rosenfeld [this message]
2012-03-15  8:42           ` Jacek Generowicz

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