Andrew Seaford

The Dotenv Python module provides an easy way to read settings from a .env file.

• Install the Python module

pip install python-dotenv

• Create a text file called .env. In this example, the setting file will contain one setting called “myName” with the value “andrew”

myName=andrew

• Create a Python file. The important parts of the script are
• Import the module using from dotenv import load_dotenv.
• Load the settings from the .env file using load_dotenv()
• Get the value for the setting called myName using os.getenv("myName")

import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv

# Load the settings from the .env file
load_dotenv()

# Get the value for the setting myName
myName = os.getenv("myName")
print("MyName=", myName)