So this is the easiest way I have found... Not sure why I did not think of this originally... but I simply suppressed the warnings issued by the cursor:
import warnings
warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", category = MySQLdb.Warning)
I then added this code to my importMySql function:
mycursor.execute("SHOW WARNINGS")
warnings = mycursor.fetchall()
for i in range(len(warnings)):
print "Warning - " +warnings[i][2]