Setting up Environmental Variables

Setting up environmental variables to hold secret keys is the best way to ensure no secret leaks of sensitive information.

Load Environmental Variables

Load environmental variables one of the two following ways

If set variables using .env file :

import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv

load_dotenv()

os.getenv('ENV_KEY_NAME')  # Example: 'AZURE_API_KEY'

If setting environmental variables with source or set :

import os

os.getenv('ENV_KEY_NAME')  # Example: 'AZURE_API_KEY'