How do you use python-decouple to load a .env file outside the expected paths?
I figured it out. Instead of importing decouple.config and doing the usual config(‘FOOBAR’), create a new decouple.Config object using RepositoryEnv(‘/path/to/env-file’). from decouple import Config, RepositoryEnv DOTENV_FILE = ‘/opt/envs/my-project/.env’ env_config = Config(RepositoryEnv(DOTENV_FILE)) # use the Config().get() method as you normally would since # decouple.config uses that internally. # i.e. config(‘SECRET_KEY’) = env_config.get(‘SECRET_KEY’) SECRET_KEY = env_config.get(‘SECRET_KEY’) Hopefully … Read more