Python xlrd: suppress warning messages

Question

I am using xlrd to process Excel files. I am running a script on a folder that contains many files, and I am printing messages related to the files. However, fo

Answer 1

import warnings

def fxn():
    warnings.warn("deprecated", DeprecationWarning)

with warnings.catch_warnings():
    warnings.simplefilter("ignore")
    fxn()

-> http://docs.python.org/library/warnings.html#temporarily-suppressing-warnings