From 1332fdabbab75bc9e4bced064dc4daab2d7acb47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2022 03:44:55 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify that every thread has its own default context in contextvars (GH-99246) (cherry picked from commit cb60b6131bc2bb11c48a15f808914d8b242b9fc5) Co-authored-by: Pablo Galindo Salgado --- Doc/library/contextvars.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/library/contextvars.rst b/Doc/library/contextvars.rst index 08a7c7d74eab97..0ac2f3d85749b7 100644 --- a/Doc/library/contextvars.rst +++ b/Doc/library/contextvars.rst @@ -144,6 +144,11 @@ Manual Context Management To get a copy of the current context use the :func:`~contextvars.copy_context` function. + Every thread will have a different top-level :class:`~contextvars.Context` + object. This means that a :class:`ContextVar` object behaves in a similar + fashion to :func:`threading.local()` when values are assigned in different + threads. + Context implements the :class:`collections.abc.Mapping` interface. .. method:: run(callable, *args, **kwargs)