diff --git a/sharepoint/cmd.py b/sharepoint/cmd.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/sharepoint/cmd.py
+++ b/sharepoint/cmd.py
@@ -4,8 +4,11 @@ def main():
     from optparse import OptionParser, OptionGroup
     import os
     import sys
+    import warnings
     from lxml import etree
 
+    warnings.simplefilter("ignore")
+
     description = ["A utility to extract data from SharePoint sites, returning ",
                    "XML. Available actions are 'lists' (returns a list of ",
                    "lists in the SharePoint site), and 'export_lists' (returns ",
Ignore warnings in stderr output on command-line tool