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| author | Elvis Pranskevichus <elvis@magic.io> | 2018-05-22 17:31:56 (GMT) |
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| committer | Yury Selivanov <yury@magic.io> | 2018-05-22 17:31:56 (GMT) |
| commit | b2f5f59ae15564b991f3ca4850e6ad28d9faacbc (patch) | |
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bpo-33592: Document the C API in PEP 567 (contextvars) (GH-7033)
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst index 8324be8..ac69719 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst @@ -515,7 +515,8 @@ New Modules contextvars ----------- -The new :mod:`contextvars` module and a set of new C APIs introduce +The new :mod:`contextvars` module and a set of +:ref:`new C APIs <contextvarsobjects>` introduce support for *context variables*. Context variables are conceptually similar to thread-local variables. Unlike TLS, context variables support asynchronous code correctly. @@ -1543,6 +1544,9 @@ A new API for thread-local storage has been implemented. See :ref:`thread-specific-storage-api` for a complete reference. (Contributed by Masayuki Yamamoto in :issue:`25658`.) +The new :ref:`context variables <whatsnew37-pep567>` functionality +exposes a number of :ref:`new C APIs <contextvarsobjects>`. + The new :c:func:`PyImport_GetModule` function returns the previously imported module with the given name. (Contributed by Eric Snow in :issue:`28411`.) |