I want to update the environmental variable on a bot on Heroku but I get this error. Edit: Looked at the post tagged & it doesn't answer my question

Asked Jun 16 '21 at 18:04

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My enviromental variable is called "GAMES_PLAYED", I have this piece of code that is supposed to retrieve the environmental variable, add 1 to it, then save the environmental variable and it's new value.

gamesPlayed = os.environ.get("GAMES_PLAYED")
gamesPlayed = int(gamesPlayed) + 1
os.environ("GAMES_PLAYED") = str(gamesPlayed)
print(gamesPlayed)

I was sure it would update the variable but instead I get this error:

File "/app/code.py", line 1292
os.environ("GAMES_PLAYED") = str(gamesPlayed)
^
SyntaxError: cannot assign to function call

Help is appreciated.

edited Jun 16 '21 at 18:09

asked Jun 16 '21 at 18:04

Evan Dilkes

@PatrickArtner this is how I would update normal variables – Evan Dilkes Jun 16 '21 at 18:07
`os.environ` is a dictionary and you have to use `[ ]` instead of `( )` to change value in dictionary. – furas Jun 16 '21 at 22:03

I want to update the environmental variable on a bot on Heroku but I get this error. Edit: Looked at the post tagged & it doesn't answer my question

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