Context manager support for `contextvars.Context`
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Description
Feature or enhancement
I would like to add __enter__ and __exit__ methods to contextvars.Context such that these two are mostly equivalent:
contextvars.copy_context().run(do_something_interesting)
and:
with contextvars.copy_context():
do_something_interesting()
Pitch
This makes it possible to combine Context enter/exit with other context managers:
import contextlib
import contextvars
@contextlib.contextmanager
def foo():
with contextvars.copy_context():
set_some_context_vars()
yield
My personal motivating interest is controlling ContextVar values in pytest fixtures. For example:
import contextvars
import pytest
import module_under_test
@pytest.fixture
def clean_slate():
with contextvars.copy_context():
module_under_test._internal_state_context_var.set(None)
yield
def test_foo(clean_slate):
assert not module_under_test.is_initialized()
Previous discussion
https://stackoverflow.com/q/59264158
Linked PRs
- gh-124773
- gh-124776
- gh-99634
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the contextvars.Context documentation and the issue's equivalence examples, then review linked PRs gh-124773, gh-124776, and gh-99634 before starting. Done means Context supports the requested context-manager usage and the behavior matches the existing run() example, including composition with other context managers.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100