Update docs and src for new python-dotenv release

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Isaac Slavitt
2016-05-01 14:14:56 -04:00
parent 880c55ee4b
commit 7a9232ff4e
2 changed files with 12 additions and 5 deletions

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@@ -203,10 +203,14 @@ If you look at the stub script in `src/data/make_dataset.py`, it uses a package
```python
# src/data/dotenv_example.py
from os.path import join, dirname
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from dotenv import load_dotenv, find_dotenv
dotenv_path = join(dirname(__file__), os.pardir, os.pardir, '.env') # up two levels to root folder
# find .env automagically by walking up directories until it's found
dotenv_path = find_dotenv()
# load up the entries as environment variables
load_dotenv(dotenv_path)
database_url = os.environ.get("DATABASE_URL")
other_variable = os.environ.get("OTHER_VARIABLE")
```