# Julia print commands not working in emacs org-mode

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-print-commands-not-working-in-emacs-org-mode/6944
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [November 7, 2017, 8:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-print-commands-not-working-in-emacs-org-mode/6944 "2017-11-07T20:34:55Z")
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#### Post date: [November 10, 2017, 3:37am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-print-commands-not-working-in-emacs-org-mode/6944/5 "2017-11-10T03:37:52Z")

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OK, it turns out that for `:results value` the following code is actually what is being executed if you study `ob-julia.el`:

```julia
writecsv("/tmp/babel-2072Vgu/julia-2072RSg", begin
    a=[1;2;3]
    b=[3;4;5]
    c=a+b
    print(c)
end)

```

The return value of `print`, which is `nothing`, is passed to `writecsv` which thus fails. And everything written to STDOUT is ignored as far as babel is concerned.

EDIT: See [here](https://github.com/gjkerns/ob-julia/blob/master/ob-julia-doc.org#evaluation-inside-the-org-buffer) for an explanation of why `writecsv` is called. I am not convinced this is the optimal function to call; really there should be a function (I think) that takes any julia value and writes it in the format orgmode expects, without using csv as an intermediary…

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