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From: Roger Mason <rmason@mun.ca>
Subject: Re: Output result of source block to a file
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2019 07:30:20 -0230
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To: John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: Roger Mason <rmason@mun.ca>, org-mode-email <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>

Hello John,

John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

> I think you can use something like this:
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC python :results output file :var fname="test.png"
> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> import io
>
> f = io.StringIO()
> plt.plot([1, 2, 3, 17])
> plt.savefig(fname)
> print(fname, end='')
> #+END_SRC
>
> It is in Python3.

Thank you.  That works.

Best wishes,
Roger