context is unavailable in python behave - python-behave

Question

I am starting with Python behave and got stuck when trying to access context - it's not available. Here is my code:
Here is the Feature file:
Feature: Company staff inventory
Scenario: count company staff
Given a set of employees:
| name | dept |
| Paul | IT |
| Mary | IT |
| Pete | Dev |
When we count the number of employees in each department
Then we will find two people in IT
And we will find one employee in Dev
Here is the Steps file:
from behave import *
#given('a set of employees')
def step_impl(context):
assert context is True
#when('we count the number of employees in each department')
def step_impl(context):
context.res = dict()
for row in context.table:
for k, v in row:
if k not in context.res:
context.res[k] = 1
else:
context.res[k] += 1
#then('we will find two people in IT')
def step_impl(context):
assert context.res['IT'] == 2
#then('we will find one employee in Dev')
def step_impl(context):
assert context.res['Dev'] == 1
Here's the Traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/kseniyab/Documents/broadsign_code/spikes/BDD_Gherkin/behave/src/py3behave/lib/python3.4/site-packages/behave/model.py", line 1456, in run
match.run(runner.context)
File "/home/kseniyab/Documents/broadsign_code/spikes/BDD_Gherkin/behave/src/py3behave/lib/python3.4/site-packages/behave/model.py", line 1903, in run
self.func(context, *args, **kwargs)
File "steps/count_staff.py", line 5, in step_impl
assert context is True
AssertionError

Answer 1

The context object is there. It is your assertion that is problematic:
assert context is True
fails because context is not True. The only thing that can satisfy x is True is where x has been set to True. context has not been set to True. It is an object. Note that testing whether context is True is not the same as testing whether if you were to write if context: the true branch would be taken or the false branch. The latter is equivalent to testing whether bool(context) is True.
There's no point in testing whether context is available. It is always there.