How to disable python warnings?

Question

I am working with code that throws a lot of (for me at the moment) useless warnings using the warnings library. Reading (/scanning) the documentation I only found a way to d

Answer 1

This is an old question but there is some newer guidance in PEP 565 that to turn off all warnings if you're writing a python application you should use:

import sys
import warnings

if not sys.warnoptions:
    warnings.simplefilter("ignore")

The reason this is recommended is that it turns off all warnings by default but crucially allows them to be switched back on via python -W on the command line or PYTHONWARNINGS.