["python","python-2.6","suppress-warnings","urllib3","pyvmomi"]
Suppress InsecureRequestWarning: Unverified HTTPS request is being made in Python2.6

I am writing scripts in Python2.6 with use of pyVmomi and while using one of the connection methods: service_instance = connect.SmartConnect(host=args.ip, user=args.user, pwd=args.password) I get the following warning: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py:734: InsecureRequestWarning: Unverified HTTPS request is being made. Adding certificate verification is strongly advised. See: https://urllib3.readthedocs.org/en/latest/security.html InsecureRequestWarning) What's interesting is that I do not have urllib3 installed with pip (but it's there in /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/). I have tried as suggested here import urllib3 ... urllib3.disable_warnings() but that didn't change anything.
You can disable any Python warnings via the PYTHONWARNINGS environment variable. In this case, you want: export PYTHONWARNINGS="ignore:Unverified HTTPS request" To disable using Python code (requests >= 2.16.0): import urllib3 urllib3.disable_warnings(urllib3.exceptions.InsecureRequestWarning) For requests < 2.16.0, see original answer below. Original answer The reason doing urllib3.disable_warnings() didn't work for you is because it looks like you're using a separate instance of urllib3 vendored inside of requests. I gather this based on the path here: /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/requests/packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py To disable warnings in requests' vendored urllib3, you'll need to import that specific instance of the module: import requests from requests.packages.urllib3.exceptions import InsecureRequestWarning requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings(InsecureRequestWarning)