This syntax works for me. #+BEGIN_SRC python :var data=data.org:remote-table print(data) #+END_SRC John ----------------------------------- Professor John Kitchin (he/him/his) Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 8:36 AM Eric S Fraga wrote: > Hello all, > > TL;DR: I have the need to reference a table that is in another file to > pass as data to a src block in the current file. Is this possible? > Hints welcome! > > Longer version: I am running a series of numerical experiments, each of > which generates output files (using org syntax!). I want to process the > data in those files for inclusion in a paper. Now, I could write a > shell script which extracts all these data and collates them etc. but it > would be ideal if I could simply refer to a table in another file > directly. The tables are all named although a given table in each > output file will have the same name (I hope that makes sense). > > One thing that comes to mind is some elisp in the argument to the :var > header argument. Is this possible? I've not tried... > > Thank you, > eric > > -- > : Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50, Org release_9.4.5-381-g17ef1b.dirty > >