trapping a MySql warning

Question

In my python script I would like to trap a \"Data truncated for column \'xxx\'\" warning durnig my query using MySql.

I saw some posts suggesting the code below, but

Answer 1

Just to add to Thomas Wouters reply, there is no need to import the warnings module to turn them into errors. Just run your script with "-W error" (or ignore) as flag for Python.