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26.4.1 Warning Categories

There are a number of built-in exceptions that represent warning categories. This categorization is useful to be able to filter out groups of warnings. The following warnings category classes are currently defined:

Class | Description
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`Warning` | This is the base class of all warning category classes. It is a subclass of `Exception`.

`UserWarning` | The default category for `warn()`.

`DeprecationWarning` | Base category for warnings about deprecated features.

`SyntaxWarning` | Base category for warnings about dubious syntactic features.

`RuntimeWarning` | Base category for warnings about dubious runtime features.

`FutureWarning` | Base category for warnings about constructs that will change semantically in the future.

`PendingDeprecationWarning` | Base category for warnings about features that will be deprecated in the future (ignored by default).

`ImportWarning` | Base category for warnings triggered during the process of importing a module (ignored by default).

`UnicodeWarning` | Base category for warnings related to Unicode.

While these are technically built-in exceptions, they are documented here, because conceptually they belong to the warnings mechanism.

User code can define additional warning categories by subclassing one of the standard warning categories. A warning category must always be a subclass of the `Warning` class.