How to use environment variables in Python in Glitch

Question

I am working on a Python API project on the Glitch platform and I didn't find anything on how to reference the .env file and use the variables in a python script. os.environ will not work because I haven't imported anything to the app. How should I reference it properly and how should I import the module correctly?

import os
var = os.environ['SECRET_NAME']  # Will raise a KeyError if not existed
var2 = os.environ.get('SECRET_NAME')  # Will give a value of 'None" if not existed

process.env is how you access env vars in *JavaScript*. If you're asking how to access env vars in Python, have you tried researching that? — jonrsharpe, Jun 06 '20 at 22:43
@jonrsharpe yes, I searched everywhere on how to refrence .env in a python script — Parsa Showkati, Jun 06 '20 at 22:48
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4906977/how-to-access-environment-variable-values? https://pypi.org/project/python-dotenv/? — jonrsharpe, Jun 06 '20 at 22:53

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 06 '20 at 22:53

Use code below to access environment variables from .env file.

python-dotenv documentation

import os
from os.path import join, dirname
from dotenv import load_dotenv

dotenv_path = join(dirname(__file__), '.env')
load_dotenv(dotenv_path)

SECRET_NAME = os.environ.get("SECRET_NAME")

How to use environment variables in Python in Glitch

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