Python Get Environment Variables

https://able.bio/rhett/how-to-set-and-get-environment-variables-in-python--274rgt5

Making it harder

import os

# Set environment variables
os.environ['API_USER'] = 'username'
os.environ['API_PASSWORD'] = 'secret'

# Get environment variables
USER = os.getenv('API_USER')
PASSWORD = os.environ.get('API_PASSWORD')

# Getting non-existent keys
FOO = os.getenv('FOO') # None
BAR = os.environ.get('BAR') # None
BAZ = os.environ['BAZ'] # KeyError: key does not exist.

Make it easy with decouple

.env

USER=foo
KEY=bar

script.py

from decouple import config

API_USERNAME = config('USER')
API_KEY = config('KEY')