Re: [PATCH] ob-python results handling for dicts, dataframes, arrays, and plots

[Ihor Radchenko]

Jack Kamm <jackkamm@gmail.com> writes:

> So I am thinking now about how we could make this more extensible in
> future. One idea is to create a Python package for interfacing with Org
> Babel, and release it on PyPi. If we detect the package is installed,
> then we can delegate to it for results formatting. And the community
> could contribute results handling for all sorts of Python objects to
> that package.
>
> That is just one idea for improving extensibility -- I'm not sure it's
> the best, and am open to other suggestions as well.

Similar to the existing LaTeX formatters, one may write a Python package
that will pretty-print Org markup as text. Not just for Org babel - it
might be useful in general.

And we do not need to support such formatters explicitly in ob-python.
Users can simply arrange to call the formatters in their code blocks by
the usual means.

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