python-dotenv VS python-decouple

I personally just use .env to keep api keys

similar to dotenv, I like this object oriented approach though.

Are you working on a Python project that uses pdm for dependency management and dotenv for local environment variable and secrets management? Do you find it frustrating when CLI tools like pgcli don't automatically pick up your .env file, forcing you to resort to npm install -g dotenv-cli? I've got a more convenient solution for you!

Similarly, I use python-dotenv which reads environment variables, or variables set in a .env file. Then in your settings.py file you can do things like:

Locally you may want to use a .env file that is also in .gitignore and python-dotenv to auto activate them. Also having an .env.template is also a good idea to help others working on the project know what they need to set in order for things to work.

But there's no web UI to set them for your local dev version. But there are various Python modules that will read environment variables from a file named .env. I like https://github.com/theskumar/python-dotenv myself. So try using that - create a .env file for your local dev site and use dotenv instead of os.getenv() to read the environment variables.

python-dotenv

Use a library likepython-decouple to separate secrets like DB_xxx, SECRET_KEY, etc. Then follow this deploy to Digital Ocean. It might be slightly out of date, but I'm pretty sure it'll work just fine.

Documentation for python decouple: https://github.com/henriquebastos/python-decouple/ Documentation for smtplib: https://docs.python.org/3/library/smtplib.html

I wish Django was more "12-factor" compliant by default. Reading secrets from environment variables should be a first-class citizen and it's not. I typically use python-decouple (https://github.com/henriquebastos/python-decouple/) for that but it would be great to have it as default.

python-decouple: We can remove sensitive data like SEECERT_KEY, DB Password from settings.py and add it in .env file.

https://github.com/henriquebastos/python-decouple

I’ve been using this for a while and it seems to solve this pretty well.

First, about the libraries that will be used, there will be three: Python Requests, json and Python Decouple. Python Requests will be responsible for carrying out the HTTP requests, json will help handle the responses obtained for the .json format, and the Python Decouple library will assist in the separation of the authentication from what is in the code.