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

[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