Document objects that can be used with the `with` statement.

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Stop the timer, and cancel the execution of the timer's action. This
will only work if the timer is still in its waiting stage.
\end{methoddesc}
\subsection{Using locks, conditions, and semaphores in the \keyword{with}
statement \label{with-locks}}
All of the objects provided by this module that have \method{acquire()} and
\method{release()} methods can be used as context managers for a \keyword{with}
statement. The \method{acquire()} method will be called when the block is
entered, and \method{release()} will be called when the block is exited.
Currently, \class{Lock}, \class{RLock}, \class{Condition}, \class{Semaphore},
and \class{BoundedSemaphore} objects may be used as \keyword{with}
statement context managers. For example:
\begin{verbatim}
from __future__ import with_statement
import threading
some_rlock = threading.RLock()
with some_rlock:
print "some_rlock is locked while this executes"
\end{verbatim}