Setting Django secret key in environment variable fails due to special character

Question

I\'m trying to set a Django secret key as a local environment variable in my venv/bin/activate.

But the key has a \"(\" in it and I get a venv error

Answer 1

Surround the string with single or double quotes. For longer strings (more than one line), you can use single or double quotes in sets of three. For more information and examples, refer to http://docs.python.org/release/2.5.2/ref/strings.html.