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Using org-babel source blocks, I can name a block and call it later. When I evaluate the block itself, I get a bare value:

#+name: demo
#+BEGIN_SRC python
return 5
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS: demo
: 5

But if I call the block, the result is always in quotes:

#+call: demo()

#+RESULTS:
: "5"

How on earth do you change this behavior? I've messed with org-babel-inline-results-wrap, to no avail.

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  • Using your exact example, I always obtain a simple unquoted 5. Apart from that, be aware that you can put modifiers to the CALL statement (:results, etc.) exactly as you can on the SRC block (look up in the manual): #+CALL: <name>[<inside header arguments>](<arguments>) <end header arguments>. – dfeich Feb 29 '16 at 13:47
  • Yep. I've tried every flag I can provide to the call -- :results verbatim for instance. And, I've never seen an instance in which someone else's call output was quoted. So my conclusion is: it is configurable somehow! But I cannot, for the life of me, figure out how. – Gastove Feb 29 '16 at 22:44
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This turns out to be a side effect of :results verbatim specifically on call blocks. Vis:

#+name: demo
#+BEGIN_SRC python :results verbatim
return 5
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS: demo
: 5

#+call: demo() :results value

#+RESULTS:
: 5

#+call: demo() :results verbatim

#+RESULTS:
: "5"

Frankly, I've no idea why this is the case, but at least it's here in case anyone else runs in to it. (I use :results verbatim very commonly on src blocks, so.)

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  • I can reproduce it, now. But it requires for me verbatim on the original src block as well as on the call block. This looks to me like a bug that should be posted to the mailing list. – dfeich Mar 1 '16 at 21:18

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