> But it got me thinking - couldn't suppress (and possibly other)
> contextlib decorators support this usage out of the box?

They possibly could but probably shouldn't.   My experience is that giving them a dual role makes them more complicated and harder to understand.

For suppress() in particular, wrapping a whole function is likely an anti-pattern.  Usually we advise people to put as little as possible in the try-block to avoid catching unexpected exceptions.

Also, I think it would be inevitable that people would try to apply these to generators or awaitables and find that they don't mix well.