[3.13] gh-142119: Clarify that one contextvars.Token can only reset once in a lifetime (GH-143693) (GH-144267)

miss-islington · johnslavik · web-flow · commit d6f4fb867a16 · 2026-01-27T11:39:20.000+01:00
(cherry picked from commit 487bd2d) Co-authored-by: Bartosz Sławecki <bartosz@ilikepython.com>
diff --git a/Doc/library/contextvars.rst b/Doc/library/contextvars.rst
@@ -93,13 +93,15 @@ Context Variables
           # After the reset call the var has no value again, so
           # var.get() would raise a LookupError.
 
+      The same *token* cannot be used twice.
+
 
 .. class:: Token
 
    *Token* objects are returned by the :meth:`ContextVar.set` method.
    They can be passed to the :meth:`ContextVar.reset` method to revert
    the value of the variable to what it was before the corresponding
-   *set*.
+   *set*. A single token cannot reset a context variable more than once.
 
    .. attribute:: Token.var
 
