bpo-32995 - Added context variable in glossary (GH-9741)
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statement by defining :meth:`__enter__` and :meth:`__exit__` methods.
See :pep:`343`.
+ context variable
+ A variable which can have different values depending on its context.
+ This is similar to Thread-Local Storage in which each execution
+ thread may have a different value for a variable. However, with context
+ variables, there may be several contexts in one execution thread and the
+ main usage for context variables is to keep track of variables in
+ concurrent asynchronous tasks.
+ See :mod:`contextvars`.
+
contiguous
.. index:: C-contiguous, Fortran contiguous
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+Added the context variable in glossary.