Re: [O] python sessions

[John Hendy]

On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Nick Dokos <address@hidden> wrote:
> Eric Schulte <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> >
>> > From participating in evaluating code throughout the discussion and
>> > catching the comments throughout, I'd say yes, at least in terms of
>> > how other babel languages function. In other words =#+begin_src R
>> > :session foo= creates an R session named "foo" whereas doing the same
>> > with =python= instead of =R= does not yield a named session.
>> >
>> > From what others experienced, however, the functionality was working
>> > correctly (results were persistent across blocks and two differently
>> > names blocks created two different sessions), just not named
>> > correctly.
>> >
>>
>> See the cond form starting at line 169 in ob-python.el.  Different
>> session functionality is used based on the `org-babel-python-mode'
>> variable, and on the version of Emacs in use (prior to 24.1 or not).
>>
>> The branch taken when `org-babel-python-mode' equals 'python is
>> certainly broken, as it never saves the name of the newly created
>> buffer, so session re-use and use of multiple named sessions probably
>> works only when `org-babel-python-mode' equals 'python-mode.
>>
>
> That's me: org-babel-python-mode's value is python, so it's no wonder
> it's broken given what Eric says. I'm on emacs 24.3.50 where there is
> python.el but no python-mode.el. I tried the "cheap" workaround of
> switching the value to python-mode, but that does a (require
> 'python-mode) somewhere, so that option is out as well.

I'm on Emacs 24.3.1 and have no python-mode.el, either (only
python.el). My setup is working correctly (again, with the caveat of
not having named sessions).


John

>
> Thanks,
> Nick
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