How to ignore deprecation warnings in Python

Question

I keep getting this :

DeprecationWarning: integer argument expected, got float

How do I make this message go away? Is there a way to avoid warnings in Python?

Answer 1

You should just fix your code but just in case,

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

Answer 2

Convert the argument to int. It's as simple as

int(argument)

Answer 3

Pass the correct arguments? :P

On the more serious note, you can pass the argument -Wi::DeprecationWarning on the command line to the interpreter to ignore the deprecation warnings.

Answer 4

Not to beat you up about it but you are being warned that what you are doing will likely stop working when you next upgrade python. Convert to int and be done with it.

BTW. You can also write your own warnings handler. Just assign a function that does nothing. How to redirect python warnings to a custom stream?

Answer 5

When you want to ignore warnings only in functions you can do the following.

import warnings
from functools import wraps


def ignore_warnings(f):
    @wraps(f)
    def inner(*args, **kwargs):
        with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as w:
            warnings.simplefilter("ignore")
            response = f(*args, **kwargs)
        return response
    return inner

@ignore_warnings
def foo(arg1, arg2):
    ...
    write your code here without warnings
    ...

@ignore_warnings
def foo2(arg1, arg2, arg3):
    ...
    write your code here without warnings
    ...

Just add the @ignore_warnings decorator on the function you want to ignore all warnings

Answer 6

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