How to work with environment variables in Python
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How do I read environment variables in Python and set default values if they do not exist?
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Reading environment variables
import os
# Get with default value
database_url = os.getenv('DATABASE_URL', 'sqlite:///db.sqlite3')
# Get (raises KeyError if not exists)
api_key = os.environ['API_KEY']
# Check if exists
if 'DEBUG' in os.environ:
debug = os.environ['DEBUG'] == 'True'Using python-dotenv
from dotenv import load_dotenv
# Load from .env file
load_dotenv()
# Now use os.getenv as usual
secret = os.getenv('SECRET_KEY')
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