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Kevin Lee
Kevin Lee

Reputation: 89

how to set environment variable from .env file in python script?

In the Ubuntu bash shell, I can set the environment variable from the .env file by using command lines "source" (example: source $OCSSWROOT/OCSSW_bash.env).

But source is not a function in python. So, how to set an environment variable from the .env file in python？

'l2gen'is a command line program of SeaDAS which be supported by NASA for processing ocean satellite data. I can run it in the bash shell. now, the more program needs to be coded with python script and 'l2gen' is one of program.

But the environment variable needs to be set again in python script. According to the google search result, I fond some method to set the environment variable in python. But lacking information about the .env file.

in the Linux bash shell, I set the environment variable by vim and source:

    vim .profile
    export OCSSWROOT=[SeaDAS_install_dir]/ocssw (adding this in the profile 
                                                 file and then save/exit)
    source $OCSSWROOT/OCSSW_bash.env

where: SeaDAS_install_dir is the directory where I installed software SeaDAS.

I try to add the environment variable as following:

import subprocess
if __name__=='__main__':
     l2cmdtest = 'l2gen -h'
     new_env = os.environ.copy()
     new_env['OCSSWROOT'] = '/usr/local/seadas-7.5.3/ocssw'
     new_env['OCSSWROOT'] = 'OCSSWROOT/OCSSW_bash.env'
     eturnCodetest = subprocess.call(l2cmdtest, shell=True)

where: 'l2gen -h' is a program which can work in the bash shell.

executing python script, and then an error:

/bin/sh: 1: l2gen: not found

Upvotes: 6

Views: 16623

Answers (1)

Mureinik
Mureinik

Reputation: 310993

The python-dotenv package can do the heavy lifting for you:

from dotenv import load_dotenv
load_dotenv(dotenv_path='OCSSW_bash.env')

Upvotes: 7

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