orgmode tables for programmers (was table export to same buffer)

[Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>]

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On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:50 PM, William Henney <whenney@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> The template is not strictly necessary - you can just add the required
> lines by hand to your C source file.
> I think that orgtbl-to-generic should be able to do what you want out of
> the box.  Maybe the attached example (orgtbl-test.c) might help you.  The
> idea is that you edit the org table at the top, then "C-u C-u C-c C-c" will
> update all the formulae in the table and install the results in your C
> source code at the bottom.  This is not quite what you originally asked
> for, since you have two copies of the data in the file and you have to
> remember to only edit the version in the org table.  But it is pretty
> close.
>
> Cheers
>
> Will
>
>
Thanks Will.
Ive converted your code to python (attached).
I find it works in org 8 but not in 6.33 -- the default for emacs on debian.
Is it easy to make it work for earlier org also??

Reason: This question was asked on the python list: thread starting
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2013-July/653164.html
And so it would be good to have an example that works mostly out of the box

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# -*- eval: (orgtbl-mode); -*-


srctable = """
#+ORGTBL: SEND mytable orgtbl-to-generic :skip 1 :skipcols (2 3) :lfmt "\t\"%s\" : %s,"
| parameter | numerator | denominator |    value |
|-----------+-----------+-------------+----------|
| a         |       3.0 |         1.0 |  3.00000 |
| b         |      14.0 |         7.0 |  2.00000 |
| c         |      -2.0 |        15.0 | -0.13333 |
#+TBLFM: $4=$2/$3;f5

"""

# With point in above table, "C-u C-u C-c C-c" will update formulae and install as python source-code


pytable = {
    # BEGIN RECEIVE ORGTBL mytable
	"a" : 3.00000,
	"b" : 2.00000,
	"c" : -0.13333,
    # END RECEIVE ORGTBL mytable
        }