["python","exception","warnings"]
In Python, how does one catch warnings as if they were exceptions?

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?
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: breakpoint() You can also reset the behaviour of warnings by running: warnings.resetwarnings() P.S. Added this answer because the best answer in comments contains misspelling: filterwarnigns instead of filterwarnings.