Clarify that every thread has its own default context in contextvars (p…

…ythonGH-99246) (cherry picked from commit cb60b61) Co-authored-by: Pablo Galindo Salgado <[email protected]>
JelleZijlstra · Dec 20, 2022 · e8f61ed · e8f61ed
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diff --git 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)