In Python, how does one catch warnings as if they were exceptions?

python exception exception-handling warnings
Boris Gorelik picture Boris Gorelik · Apr 13, 2011 · Viewed 71.2k times · Source

A third-party library (written in C) that I use in my python code is issuing warnings. I want to be able to use the try except syntax to properly handle these warnings. Is there a way to do this?

Answer

niekas picture niekas · May 21, 2015

To handle warnings as errors simply use this:

import warnings
warnings.filterwarnings("error")

After this you will be able to catch warnings same as errors, e.g. this will work:

try:
    some_heavy_calculations()
except RuntimeWarning:
    import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace()

P.S. Added this answer because the best answer in comments contains misspelling: filterwarnigns instead of filterwarnings.

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