astrofrog
astrofrog

Reputation: 34181

Hide all warnings in IPython

I need to produce a screencast of an IPython session, and to avoid confusing viewers, I want to disable all warnings emitted by warnings.warn calls from different packages. Is there a way to configure the ipythonrc file to automatically disable all such warnings?

Upvotes: 532

Views: 863192

Answers (7)

Joswin K J
Joswin K J

Reputation: 710

The accepted answer does not work in some cases when the warnings are produced in child processes. In such cases, you can set the PYTHONWARNINGS environment variable to filter warnings from child processes.

os.environ["PYTHONWARNINGS"] = "ignore"

Upvotes: 0

cottontail
cottontail

Reputation: 23509

TL;DR: It matters when you make a call to filterwarnings. Place warnings.filterwarnings(action="ignore") after all imports. In other words, do:

import warnings
import third_party_module
from a_cool_module import UsefulObject
warnings.filterwarnings(action="ignore")   # <--- ignore after imports

# no other imports after this line

Some explanation: Many libraries have code in their __init__.py file that prints warnings that the maintainers think you need to be aware of (warnings.filterwarnings("default", DeprecationWarning) or similar), so if you run warnings.filterwarnings("ignore") before importing any module (e.g. at the top of the notebook or even in the ipy_user_conf.py file) and you import objects, you end up overwriting your own filterwarnings call (that is supposed to suppress warnings) with the module's filterwarnings call (which prints warnings). This ends up printing a warning and you wonder why that happened. It is akin to the following:

import warnings
warnings.filterwarnings(action="ignore")
warnings.filterwarnings(action="default")
warnings.warn("bla bla")                     # <--- warning printed

What I'm suggesting is similar to the following:

import warnings
warnings.filterwarnings(action="default")
warnings.filterwarnings(action="ignore")
warnings.warn("bla bla")                     # <--- warning is not shown

This especially happens when you have already run a cell containing code to hide warnings in the beginning of a notebook but then import from a third-party library (e.g. pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn etc.) in a cell further down in the notebook, which overwrites the previous filterwarnings to ignore warnings, and starts printing warnings.

Upvotes: 1

you need to specify the category otherwise even with the top solution above you'd get warnings

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

Upvotes: 2

robert
robert

Reputation: 978

The accepted answer does not work in Jupyter (at least when using some libraries).

The JavaScript solutions here only hide warnings that are already showing but not warnings that would be shown in the future.

To hide/unhide warnings in Jupyter and JupyterLab I wrote the following script that essentially toggles CSS to hide/unhide warnings.

%%javascript
(function(on) {
    const e = $("<a>Setup failed</a>");
    const ns = "js_jupyter_suppress_warnings";
    var cssrules = $("#" + ns);
    if(!cssrules.length)
        cssrules = $("<style id='" + ns + "' type='text/css'>div.output_stderr { } </style>").appendTo("head");
    e.click(function() {
        var s = 'Showing';
        cssrules.empty()
        if(on) {
            s = 'Hiding';
            cssrules.append("div.output_stderr, div[data-mime-type*='.stderr'] { display:none; }");
        }
        e.text(s + ' warnings (click to toggle)');
        on = !on;
    }).click();
    $(element).append(e);
})(true);

Upvotes: 14

ottowg
ottowg

Reputation: 51

For JupyterLab, this should work (@Alasja):

from IPython.display import HTML

HTML('''<script>
var code_show_err = false;
var code_toggle_err = function() {
    var stderrNodes = document.querySelectorAll('[data-mime-type="application/vnd.jupyter.stderr"]')
    var stderr = Array.from(stderrNodes)
    if (code_show_err){
        stderr.forEach(ele => ele.style.display = 'block');
    } else {
        stderr.forEach(ele => ele.style.display = 'none');
    }
    code_show_err = !code_show_err
}
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', code_toggle_err);
</script>
To toggle on/off output_stderr, click <a onclick="javascript:code_toggle_err()">here</a>.''')

Upvotes: 5

astrofrog
astrofrog

Reputation: 34181

Place:

import warnings
warnings.filterwarnings('ignore')

inside ~/.ipython/profile_default/startup/disable-warnings.py.

Quite often it is useful to see a warning once. This can be set by:

warnings.filterwarnings(action='once')

Upvotes: 1261

matthiash
matthiash

Reputation: 3243

I hide the warnings in the pink boxes by running the following code in a cell:

from IPython.display import HTML
HTML('''<script>
code_show_err=false; 
function code_toggle_err() {
 if (code_show_err){
 $('div.output_stderr').hide();
 } else {
 $('div.output_stderr').show();
 }
 code_show_err = !code_show_err
} 
$( document ).ready(code_toggle_err);
</script>
To toggle on/off output_stderr, click <a href="javascript:code_toggle_err()">here</a>.''')

Upvotes: 64

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