I keep getting 'None' when getting enviroment variables

Question

I'm trying to keep my token in an enviroment variable, so I created the file .env, and I stored the TOKEN there:

TOKEN=XXX

When I run my .py file, I can't get the enviroment variable TOKEN, it keeps printing 'None'.

import os
    
token = os.environ.get("TOKEN")
print(token)

Please check this answer. https://stackoverflow.com/a/41547163/5186565 — Cagatay Barin, Jun 28 '21 at 13:50
Please re-generate your token as it can be seen in the edit history. — Dominik, Jun 28 '21 at 13:56
Tokens are private and should **never** be shared with other people. It's like a password connected to you. Go to the developer site of Discord and regenerate a new token, or else people will be able to use it to make requests with your account. — Ted Klein Bergman, Jun 28 '21 at 13:58
@s0urce No, you can't just change some characters. You have to go to Discord and regenerate a completely new token — Ted Klein Bergman, Jun 28 '21 at 14:13

Shadab · Accepted Answer · 2022-04-26T03:20:47.197

2

What you are trying to do is use a dotenv variable directly using os.environ. In order to use variables from .env, you need the dotenv library. Install dotenv library:

pip install dotenv

Then import dotenv like this.

from dotenv import load_dotenv
load_dotenv()  # this will load variables from .env.

edited Apr 26 '22 at 03:20

answered Jun 28 '21 at 13:59

Shadab

46
4

1

Thanks. That was the error, I had to load the enviroment variable – s0urce Jun 28 '21 at 14:10

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 29 '22 at 08:50

If you have tried the answers mentioned by @Shadab and you're still getting None while printing the values from env.

Maybe you didn't created the .env file in the correct file directory.

We meed to create the .env file within project scope, not inside any folders.

I keep getting 'None' when getting enviroment variables

2 Answers2