Re: python sessions

[Gary Oberbrunner <garyo@oberbrunner.com>]

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I did some further testing.  With my patch, my real org-mode python file is
now actually working.  There were a few gotchas I didn't understand about
session mode and python and matplotlib:

1. In session mode, you are essentially running an interactive python.
 (This is made explicit by my patch, which passes -i).
2. In interactive mode, blank lines are special: they indicate the end of
an indented block.  So you have to write your org-mode python a little
differently when using session mode.
3. matplotlib uses an "interactive" backend when started from an
interactive python (sensibly).  So you have to set the backend explicitly
when using session mode, or it hangs forever with no indication what's
wrong.
4. ob-python does not handle python errors at all in session mode: it
ignores them silently.  This makes it really hard to debug the python code.

I'd like to document #s 1-3; where should that go?
I'd like to work on a patch for #4; it seems like the only thing is to
search in the session buffer for likely error strings.  Is there any better
method anyone can think of?

-- 
Gary

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