gh-93343: Expand warning filter examples by daniel-shimon · Pull Request #106618 · python/cpython · GitHub

Add examples of warning filters and the difference between programatic and environmental filters.

Issue: Add more examples in the warnings docs #93343

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Thanks for the PR!
This is a step in the right direction, but there are more subtleties in pytest-dev/pytest#8759 (comment) that are not described here.

In particular:

Where/when can I uses regexes vs plain text? This applies to both different types of filters (filterwarnings()/-W/PYTHONWARNINGS) and different fields within a filter (message/package/module).
How to match part of a message with the different types of filters (beginning of the message vs substring).
How to filter messages coming from specific packages/modules/submodules with the different types of filters.

I think this would be better covered in a new section of the warnings docs -- either a generic Examples section that includes these alongside with comments and explanations, or a more specific section that focuses on the differences between the different warnings types. A mini-howto might also be an option, but we can start with a single section and expand it later.

In addition, since you would have to test different filters to ensure that the behavior you are documenting is correct, it might be worth adding some of these examples to the warnings tests in Lib/test.

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               filterwarnings("ignore", message=".*generic", module=r"yourmodule\.submodule")
          
               filterwarnings("ignore", message="\.*generic", module="yourmodule\.submodule")

Shouldn't this be escaped as well? The r here is not necessary, and its usage should be consistent between the two args (assuming they are both regexes).

No since the first arg wants to capture strings that contain 'generic' so that the '.' catches everything, while the first arg want to capture 'yourmodule.submodule' specifically, meaning that the '.' actually captures dot and should be escaped

Well, it sounds to me you should put that explanation into the docs, @daniel-shimon; if it is unclear for a reviewer, it is not going to be clear for the average docs reader ;)

Add examples of warning filters and the difference between programatic and environmental filters.

Hi @ezio-melotti, thanks for the fast review!
I moved the examples to a separate section and elaborated a bit on the explanations.

Where/when can I uses regexes vs plain text? This applies to both different types of filters (filterwarnings()/-W/PYTHONWARNINGS) and different fields within a filter (message/package/module).
How to match part of a message with the different types of filters (beginning of the message vs substring).

I've linked to the warning filter definitions since I think they explain this concisely and don't think we need to add another section repeating the same info. What do you think?

FYI, @daniel-shimon: please don't force push; it does not play well with the GitHub UI, and especially not with review remarks and CI. You can use git pull --no-ff main instead. See also https://devguide.python.org/getting-started/pull-request-lifecycle/

Oh, it seems like none of the example code in Doc/library/warnings.rst is checked by doctest :( That is unfortunate! I don't remember the doctest specifics, but if it is possible, please make is so that at least the added examples are run through doctest. If not, adding doctests to this .rst file is out of scope for this PR, but it should be done.

@erlend-aasland so actually this was because I amended the commit, cause I thought it was weird to have "pr fixes" in the main Python repo after accepting the pr.
So should I add new commits and squash before merge? What is the practice here?

Ok I see and understand that now, thanks guys 🙌

Ok I see and understand that now, thanks guys 🙌

np, and thanks for improving the docs! I recommend spending some hours with the devguide; there's a lot of useful information there :) Also, if you find sections in the devguide that are hard to grasp, or just worded badly, don't hesitate to open an issue over at the devguide repo; fixing devguide bugs is one of the most important things we can do :)

Hello from +1 year! Where are we up to on this PR? It looks like there's still some suggestions for @daniel-shimon to address, would you like update the PR? Thanks!

Ping :)

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another half year has passed :)
I don't know how long it should take after adding pending label, but I suggest waiting the last 2 weeks (another attempt @daniel-shimon)

Hi!
Wow somehow I've missed the emails about this PR and was sure it was long forgotten 😅
I'll address the comments in the upcoming days, thanks for the ping!

Hi @erlend-aasland , I added clarifications regarding escaping and regexes.
Could you take a look?
Thanks!

I think those examples should be separated by a new line for clarity purposes.

If you use rc, check its value as well. Otherwise use _, stdout, stderr = ...

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Hi @picnixz, thanks for the review! I've fixed your comments 🙏

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		Note that :func:`filterwarnings` filters have subtle differences from :option:`-W` and :envvar:`PYTHONWARNINGS`::

		filterwarnings("ignore", message=".*generic", module=r"yourmodule\.submodule")

	filterwarnings("ignore", message=".*generic", module=r"yourmodule\.submodule")
	filterwarnings("ignore", message="\.*generic", module="yourmodule\.submodule")

		# in order to match a literal dot character.
		filterwarnings("ignore", message="generic", module=r"yourmodule\.submodule")

+                  def test_string_literals(self):
+                      # Ensure message/module are treated as string literals
+                      rc, stdout, stderr = assert_python_ok("-c",

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