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warnings: adding new filter resets prior existing "once" filters

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Description

Bug report

Bug description:

If a filter is defined with action="once", the occurrence tracking is reset each time a new filter is defined. This can override the ability to effectively use action="once" if the filter manipulation occurs in a library which the user cannot control (e.g. matplotlib).

For example, the following code will only output a warning once (i.e. works as intended):

import warnings

warnings.filterwarnings("once", "test warning", UserWarning)
warnings.warn("test warning", UserWarning)
warnings.warn("test warning", UserWarning)

However, simply inserting an unrelated filter prior to the second warning will cause both to be output:

warnings.filterwarnings("once", "test warning", UserWarning)
warnings.warn("test warning", UserWarning)

warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", "something unrelated")
warnings.warn("test warning", UserWarning)
CPython versions tested on:

3.14

Operating systems tested on:

Linux

Linked PRs
  • gh-153697

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Research direction

Start with the warnings.filterwarnings and warnings.warn reproducer in the issue, then locate the warnings implementation and its tests in CPython. Done means adding an unrelated filter no longer resets occurrence tracking for an existing action="once" filter; gh-153697 is already linked to this issue.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
backend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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