George Mauer writes:

> I'm trying to figure out how I could fetch the contents of another block by
> name from an elisp script
>
> I've seen `org-sbe` but I just want to get the block contents, (ideally
> with noweb and vars filled in - just as it would be tangled if we were to
> tangle it)
>
> How do I do that?

How about something like this?

  (save-excursion
    (goto-char (org-babel-find-named-block "b"))
    (org-babel-expand-src-block))