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Expand Up @@ -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)
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