R. David Murray added the comment:

This has been proposed and rejected several times before.

IMO, a strong reason to reject it is that no other assert methods return 
values.  Consistency is important.

Also note that cm survives the context manager, so you don't need that 
assignment statement.

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nosy: +r.david.murray
resolution:  -> duplicate
stage:  -> resolved
status: open -> closed
superseder:  -> unittest.assertRaises() return the raised exception

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