How do I catch a numpy warning like it’s an exception (not just for testing)?

I have to make a Lagrange polynomial in Python for a project I’m doing. I’m doing a barycentric style one to avoid using an explicit for-loop as opposed to a Newton’s divided difference style one. The problem I have is that I need to catch a division by zero, but Python (or maybe numpy) just makes it a warning instead of a normal exception.

So, what I need to know how to do is to catch this warning as if it were an exception. The related questions to this I found on this site were answered not in the way I needed. Here’s my code:

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import warnings

class Lagrange:
    def __init__(self, xPts, yPts):
        self.xPts = np.array(xPts)
        self.yPts = np.array(yPts)
        self.degree = len(xPts)-1 
        self.weights = np.array([np.product([x_j - x_i for x_j in xPts if x_j != x_i]) for x_i in xPts])

    def __call__(self, x):
        warnings.filterwarnings("error")
        try:
            bigNumerator = np.product(x - self.xPts)
            numerators = np.array([bigNumerator/(x - x_j) for x_j in self.xPts])
            return sum(numerators/self.weights*self.yPts) 
        except Exception, e: # Catch division by 0. Only possible in 'numerators' array
            return yPts[np.where(xPts == x)[0][0]]

L = Lagrange([-1,0,1],[1,0,1]) # Creates quadratic poly L(x) = x^2

L(1) # This should catch an error, then return 1. 

When this code is executed, the output I get is:

Warning: divide by zero encountered in int_scalars

That’s the warning I want to catch. It should occur inside the list comprehension.

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