How to access environment variable values?

Question

I set an environment variable that I want to access in my Python application. How do I get its value?

Answer 1

For django see (https://github.com/joke2k/django-environ)

$ pip install django-environ

import environ
env = environ.Env(
# set casting, default value
DEBUG=(bool, False)
)
# reading .env file
environ.Env.read_env()

# False if not in os.environ
DEBUG = env('DEBUG')

# Raises django's ImproperlyConfigured exception if SECRET_KEY not in os.environ
SECRET_KEY = env('SECRET_KEY')