Alternatives and related projects¶
This document presents other projects that provide similar or complementary functionalities. It focuses on differences with wardrobe.
Django’s template contexts¶
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.
Contextvars¶
Contextvars is about contextual variables. Not about contextual dictionary-like objects.