Go Template seems to be a bit limited. Is there any way we might have e.g. jinja2?

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Go Template'ing seems to be limited and makes some rather basic logical flows impossible or very hard to pull off, see here why: golang/go#14992

While in other templating languages the same logical flow isn't trivially doable either, they usually provide possible workarounds that allow a logical flow as in the link above (for example in jinja2: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4870346/can-a-jinja-variables-scope-extend-beyond-in-an-inner-block ).

Have you therefore considered providing a more powerful templating language like the popular jinja2 as an alternative? I am aware this would introduce an additional python dependency, but right now I can't do many things in the template I would like to do because of the limitations of Go Template...

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As has been pointed out, the specific use case I gave is doable thanks to various additions of docker-gen for the available functions.

Still, I wonder if some templating engine that is both more popular and has a richer set of known default functions for people might at least be worth a consideration? If it's feasible at all to add it as an alternative of course..