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Walking the call stack implies using dynamic scope, which has hard edges, vs lexical scope. See my answer earlier in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41272285 It's …

Thanks to the feedback in the Discourse thread, we will be changing the signature such that a tag function will be passed an object implementing a Template protocol, with attribute…

The intent here is to support the following approach for tag function authors: 1. Parse to an AST, generally using an off-the-shelf parser. In practice, it's possible to rewrite in…

Frame hacks with sys._getframe necessarily imply dynamic scope not lexical scope. Dynamic scope does not work with nested functions, including comprehensions. See this issue with t…

Yes, that would be true on all counts :) as one of those Jython maintainers. Jython 2.7.1 is currently bottlenecked on finalizing support on Windows for pip/setuptools. It should b…