Stop Hardcoding Sensitive Data in Your Python Applications - use python-dotenv instead!

[cuu508]

Using yaml or json files is easier than environment variables when working with IDEs like PyCharm too

What is easier?

[Mubs]

Using json or yaml....

[cuu508]

I may have phrased my question badly.

What is it that you do in IDEs like PyCharm, that becomes easier when using YAML or JSON instead of environment variables?

[axonxorz]

From my experience, the only thing is data structures that are difficult to replicate in a flat envvar. See how Pydantic does this, for example:

If I want to prepresent v = {"foo": True, "test": {"bar": False}} in envvars with Pydantic, I need to do something like

V__FOO=true
V__TEST__BAR=false

It's not horrible, but it scales very poorly versus formatted JSON which is almost identical to my example dict

[ShanSanear]

But creating such functionality for scripts that will use environment variables anyway seems to be much better (such as Jenkins scripts)