Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:

> What about 
>
>  #+begin_src python :results table
>    return {"a": 1, "b": 2}
>  #+end_src
>
>  #+RESULTS:
>  | a | 1 |
>  | b | 2 |

I attach a 2nd patch implementing this. It also makes ":results table"
the default return type for dict. (Use ":results verbatim" to get the
dict as a string instead).

I am also putting a branch with these changes here:
https://github.com/jackkamm/org-mode/tree/python-results-revisited-2023

>
> or 
>
>  #+begin_src python :results list
>    return {"a": 1, "b": 2}
>  #+end_src
>
>  #+RESULTS:
>  - a :: 1
>  - b :: 2

This seems harder, and may require more widespread changes beyond
ob-python. In particular, I think we'd need to change
`org-babel-insert-result' so that it can call `org-list-to-org' with a
list of type "descriptive" instead of "unordered" here:

https://git.sr.ht/~bzg/org-mode/tree/cc435cba71a99ee7b12676be3b6e1211a9cb7285/item/lisp/ob-core.el#L2535