[Python] How do I disable this warning from abseil in selenium python when using chromedriver?

This is the code that I tried to run

from selenium import webdriver

options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
options.add_argument('log-level=3')
driver = webdriver.Chrome(options=options)
driver.get("https://example.com")
input()


and this is the output

DevTools listening on ws://127.0.0.1:62699/devtools/browser/8462948e-49fc-4e39-aa2b-bc89d4e3d0e4
WARNING: All log messages before absl::InitializeLog() is called are written to STDERR
I0000 00:00:1751797016.966696 65184 voice_transcription.cc:58] Registering VoiceTranscriptionCapability


the DevTools listening part is fine but I have no idea where this warning is coming from. I want to remove this warning and stop the log as it has no relevance to what I am doing and it is causing noise in the console.

The selenium version is 4.34.0 and I have not installed abseil so the warning likely comes from selenium or the chromedriver and I cant really tell where this warning is from.

I tried googling this and this log seems to come from the abseil library. I found one similar issue but it is about Gemini API and not selenium. This is a link to that question.

How do I get rid of the annoying terminal warning when using Gemini API?

I tried the solution there, which is to set these environmental variables

import os

# Suppress logging warnings
os.environ["GRPC_VERBOSITY"] = "ERROR"
os.environ["GLOG_minloglevel"] = "2"


but it did not work.

another solution proposed in the answers of the question is to install a specific version of grpcio. I did not attempt to do that as I do not have grpcio installed so installing grpcio is likely not going to do anything.

I have also tried redirecting stdout and stderr by doing this

import sys

log = []

class writer(object):
def write(self, data):
log.append(data)

sys.stdout = writer()
sys.stderr = writer()


but it still did not work

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