Jack Kamm <jackkamm@tatersworld.org> writes:

> I think it's worthwhile for Org Babel to support external sessions
> where feasible.  ob-R and ob-python have long supported this, though
> recent changes to ob-python seem to have broken it there (I'm looking
> into fixing that).

I'm attaching a patch that restores ob-python's ability to work with
externally started sessions.

I'll plan to push this commit in a few days, unless any problems with
the patch are noticed.