"Barton, Mark" <Mark.Barton@disney.com> writes:

> I tried something that was suggested last September 14th by Augusto Stoffel. I had not tried it because changing the sleep from 10 to 90 was my workaround.
> One thing that might work is to block until the shell is ready with something like
>
>     (run-python)
>     (with-current-buffer *the-shell-buffer*
>       (while (not python-shell--first-prompt-received)
>         (accept-process-output (get-buffer-process (current-buffer)))))

Thanks, but it is not a good solution. Org cannot rely on internal
variables inside python.el (python-shell--first-prompt-received is an
internal variable). Internal variables are a subject of change without
notice.

May you instead try the attached alternative patch?

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