This is inspired by the [discussion on iterable strings](https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/thread/WKEFHT4...), although I think it has applications elsewhere. Sometimes programs emit warnings that need to be filtered out. Maybe they're coming from dependencies that we don't control, or maybe it's our own code but it's a problem that can't be fixed or isn't worth the trouble. But filtering warnings correctly isn't very easy. You generally shouldn't ignore all warnings, as this would hide important ones. Similarly, you probably shouldn't even filter an entire category, which is what many end up doing. A good compromise is to specify both the category and the module. In particular this lets you ignore warnings from libraries while still being able to see warnings from your own code. But there are obstacles on the way: 1. Remembering the syntax is hard. I've never been able to. 2. Looking it up is hard. If I Google "python ignore warnings" the top result is a Stack Overflow question where neither the accepted answer nor the most upvoted answer mention specifying a module. The second Google result is the Python docs which are not easy to read through. 3. There's lots of similarly named methods and it's hard to find the right one. Is it catch_warnings, simplefilter, or filterwarnings? 4. When warnings are displayed, they show the filename, but filters require a module name, and converting between the two is tedious. 5. The more warnings there are, and thus the more serious the need to filter them properly, the more work it is to write all the filters. I propose we add a built in mechanism that is easy to use and remember which displays Python code that can be copy pasted. For example, this could be a configuration option which causes the line of code to be shown in stderr immediately after the actual warning. Alternatively, here's a context manager / decorator which prints the code after it exits: import inspect import warnings from contextlib import contextmanager import __main__ @contextmanager def showfilters(): with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as warnings_list: yield for warning in warnings_list: if warning.filename == getattr(__main__, "__file__", object()): module = "__main__" else: module = inspect.getmodulename(warning.filename) module = bool(module) * f", module={module!r}" print( f"warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', " f"category={warning.category.__name__}" f"{module})" ) # Sample usage # Prints the below, uncomment to confirm that output disappears # warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', category=UserWarning, module='__main__') # warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', category=SyntaxWarning) @showfilters() # comment out to see original warnings def main(): warnings.warn("DOOM") exec("assert (1, 2)") main() This is of course a rough implementation, there are probably things it does wrong and there's all sorts of details about the desired behaviour we could debate about. The aim is that the code it prints is good enough for most cases and can easily be edited, particularly by deleting lines. Does this seem like a good general idea?