[Python-ideas] PEP draft: context variables

Oleg Broytman phd at phdru.name
Mon Sep 4 18:20:36 EDT 2017


Hi!

On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 12:50:35AM +0300, Koos Zevenhoven <k7hoven at gmail.com> wrote:
>     cvar = contextvars.Var(default="the default value",
>                            description="example context variable")

   Why ``description`` and not ``doc``?

>     with cvar.assign(new_value):

   Why ``assign`` and not ``set``?

> Each thread of the Python interpreter keeps its on stack of

   "its own", I think.

> ``contextvars.Assignment`` objects, each having a pointer to the previous
> (outer) assignment like in a linked list.

Oleg.
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