Interesting, I would have said CoffeeScript was more pythonic than this. It certainly doesn't remind me of Ruby, and to the extent that it's a different syntax

Interesting, I would have said CoffeeScript was more pythonic than this. It certainly doesn't remind me of Ruby, and to the extent that it's a different syntax for JavaScript than a different language, scoping is different but in practice you don't notice things that are very different in Python.