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Alternatives and related projects
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This document presents other projects that provide similar or complementary
functionalities. It focuses on differences with wardrobe.


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Django's template contexts
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`Django`_'s template contexts (django.template.context.Context) are
dictionary-like objects that support push() and pop() methods. They are used to
backup and restore the context in some template tags.

Some notes:

* wardrobe focuses on stack-based datastructures, whereas Django is a web
  framework.

* wardrobe is lighter than Django.

* wardrobe.StackedDict targets general Python usage, whereas Django's Context
  objects are specialized for use in the Django's template language.

* As of Django 1.4, wardrobe.StackedDict instances looks more like standard
  dict objects than Django's Context instances. As examples, look at
  __delitem__() or pop() methods.

* Django could use wardrobe.StackedDict... but, as of Django 1.4, it doesn't
  match the "almost no external dependencies" policy in Django project.


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Contextvars
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`Contextvars`_ is about contextual variables. Not about contextual
dictionary-like objects.


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References
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.. _`Django`: http://djangoproject.com
.. _`Contextvars`: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/contextvars