Re: Org-babel `:hlines yes` no longer working for python

["Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com>]

Hi Christopher,

Thanks for pointing this out, this is an error in the documentation,
which I will update.  The code you posted should generate the error you
have received.

Currently the only language which can handle hlines is emacs-lisp, all
other languages will result in errors like the one you pasted below.
That's not to say that it wouldn't be possible to add hline handling to
other languages, or to maybe do something tricky like session-based
evaluation in which an `hlines' variable was pre-initialized to some
value, but I digress.

Note that it *is* possible to have hlines in the output, using colnames,
e.g.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#+tblname: A
| a | b | c |
|---+---+---|
| d | e | f |
| g | h | i |

#+begin_src python :var tab=A :colnames yes
return [[val + '*' for val in row] for row in tab]
#+end_src

#+results:
| a  | b  | c  |
|----+----+----|
| d* | e* | f* |
| g* | h* | i* |
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

which works because the hline, and the column names, are never made
available to python, rather Babel holds onto them and then re-applies
them to the source block's output.

or even to have an elisp block add hlines to your results

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#+tblname: many-cols
| a | b | c |
|---+---+---|
| d | e | f |
|---+---+---|
| g | h | i |

#+source: echo-table
#+begin_src python :var tab=many-cols
  return tab
#+end_src

#+begin_src emacs-lisp :var table=echo-table
  (butlast (apply #'append (mapcar (lambda (el) (list el 'hline)) table)))
#+end_src

#+results:
| a | b | c |
|---+---+---|
| d | e | f |
|---+---+---|
| g | h | i |
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Thanks for pointing this out!

Best -- Eric

Christopher Allan Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org> writes:

> Hello all,
>
> I was going through the tutorial and testing the :hlines yes feature as
> described in the info manual.  Unfortunately, the example given no
> longer seems to work for python:
>
> #+tblname: many-cols
> | a | b | c |
> |---+---+---|
> | d | e | f |
> |---+---+---|
> | g | h | i |
>
> #+source: echo-table
> #+begin_src python :var tab=many-cols :hlines yes
>   return tab
> #+end_src
>
> #+results: echo-table
> | a | b | c |
> | d | e | f |
> | g | h | i |
>
> In the buffer *Org-Babel Error Output* I see:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 6, in <module>
>   File "<stdin>", line 3, in main
> NameError: global name 'hline' is not defined
>
> In emacs-lisp this still seems to work though.  But I also see that in
> emacs lisp hlines are represented by the hline symbol.  I'm guessing
> that the python equivalent was trying to do the same thing, but no hline
> variable exists in python?
>
> Thanks!
>  - cwebb
>
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