Thanks Jack. Confirmed works. This might need to mentioned in Org manual and in ob-python.el source
code with comment. WDYT?

Jack Kamm <jackkamm@gmail.com> writes:

> For non-session Python blocks, you need to use "return" on the value, as
> if you are in a function.
>
> The following works for me:
>
> #+begin_src python :results value pp
>   dic = {'key1': 1, 'b': 2}
>   return dic
> #+end_src
>
> #+RESULTS:
> : {'b': 2, 'key1': 1}


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