Add a Stopwatch class to the timeit module

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Adding Context Manger to threading.Timer

Proposing to add context management to threading.Timer. I had an issue where I didn’t want to ask the user to be patient unless they had already been waiting a while. Timer works nicely for this: t = Timer(1, print, ("Trust me, I'm on it...",)) t.start() time.sleep(2) t.cancel() Enclosing calls of start and cancel call out for context management for the obvious reasons. Sub-classing and adding it was trivial: class Timer(Timer): def __enter__(self): se…