How to ignore deprecation warnings in Python

Question

You should just fix your code but just in case,

import warnings
warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", category=DeprecationWarning) 

I had these:

/home/eddyp/virtualenv/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Twisted-8.2.0-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/twisted/persisted/sob.py:12:
DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead import os, md5, sys

/home/eddyp/virtualenv/lib/python2.6/site-packages/Twisted-8.2.0-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg/twisted/python/filepath.py:12:
DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead import sha

Fixed it with:

import warnings

with warnings.catch_warnings():
    warnings.filterwarnings("ignore",category=DeprecationWarning)
    import md5, sha

yourcode()

Now you still get all the other DeprecationWarnings, but not the ones caused by:

import md5, sha

From documentation of the warnings module:

 #!/usr/bin/env python -W ignore::DeprecationWarning

If you're on Windows: pass -W ignore::DeprecationWarning as an argument to Python. Better though to resolve the issue, by casting to int.

(Note that in Python 3.2, deprecation warnings are ignored by default.)

None of these answers worked for me so I will post my way to solve this. I use the following at the beginning of my main.py script and it works fine.

---

Use the following as it is (copy-paste it):

def warn(*args, **kwargs):
    pass
import warnings
warnings.warn = warn

Example:

import "blabla"
import "blabla"

def warn(*args, **kwargs):
    pass
import warnings
warnings.warn = warn

# more code here...
# more code here...

---

I found the cleanest way to do this (especially on windows) is by adding the following to C:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\sitecustomize.py:

import warnings
warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", category=DeprecationWarning)

Note that I had to create this file. Of course, change the path to python if yours is different.

Docker Solution

• Disable ALL warnings before running the python application
  • You can disable your dockerized tests as well

ENV PYTHONWARNINGS="ignore::DeprecationWarning"