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[mortal cove]

Hi, I am trying to pull values from a .env file but I get KeyError: 'CLIENT_ID'.
In my .env file I Have the value: CLIENT_ID = x.
My code is as follows:

from os import environ as env
from dotenv import load_dotenv

load_dotenv()

print('CLIENT_ID:  {}'.format(env['CLIENT_ID']))

Can someone help please? Thanks

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@mortal cove

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[spice ginkgo]

are you sure the env file exist and properly save with the correct data?

[mortal cove]

Yeah it definitely exists and has a value for CLIENT_ID

[spice ginkgo]

have you try print env

[haughty hare]

it might be a cwd issue. so it might not look for the file in the correct location

[mortal cove]

good idea, I just have done and the output is completely different to what is in my env file haha

[mortal cove]

ah okay so how do I fix this?

[haughty hare]

the environment contains not only your own variables. it's normal to have lots of other stuff

[haughty hare]

depends on how you run it

[mortal cove]

what do you mean?

[haughty hare]

cwd depends on the folder you run it from, but what that is ultimately depends on the way you run your python file... from terminal? from IDE? some other way?

[mortal cove]

ah, I'm running it from terminal

[haughty hare]

the directory you're inside of, is typically your cwd (current working directory)

and I'm somewhat sure python-dotenv looks in that folder for your .env file

[mortal cove]

my python file and env file are in the same directory

[haughty hare]

yea, but the directory where your python file is, is not necessarily your current working directory

can you show the terminal and the comand you use to run your python script?

[mortal cove]

(admin cmd prompt)

[haughty hare]

and the .env file is also in the NarReddit-Script-main folder?

[mortal cove]

yep

[haughty hare]

have you double ckecked the file is named correctly? you can use the "dir" command in your terminal

yea it's .env not env

it needs to start with a dot

(that's why the lib is called dotenv)

[mortal cove]

ah right, I just assumed it was fine as it was a .env file type
however I just renamed It and I am still getting the same KeyError

and when I change the code to print(env) It's still not the output I'm expecting

[haughty hare]

what did you change the filename to?

[mortal cove]

.env like you said

[white tide]

just use override=True parameter in load_dotenv function

load_dotenv(override=True)

[haughty hare]

that's not gonna fix anything

[white tide]

it does

sometimes environment variables are stored for future use

overriding it helps when you have replaced it with new values

[mortal cove]

It didn't work

[haughty hare]

that doesn't explain the keyerror

[white tide]

hmm weird

[haughty hare]

the var doesn't exist, and you shouldn't use override anyway, as actually specified env vars should have priority... the .env is just a fallback

anyway

so the file is named literally ".env" - only those 4 characters? (just making sure)

(".env" is not an extension, it's the full filename) 🙂

[mortal cove]

yep

how can such a simple thing be so complicated haha

[haughty hare]

well , I have a feeling it's actually .env.txt ... can you use the "dir" command in your terminal to list the files?

[mortal cove]

it says .env.env

[haughty hare]

yea, that's wrong. it seems whatever you use to create the file with, adds it automatically

[toxic portal]

Can you do this, you should then be able to see the full name, .env.env in file explorer, and can then rename the file to .env

[haughty hare]

yep, always nicer to actually see all your extensions

[toxic portal]

I had a message typed out saying I'm guessing the files named .env.env lol

[mortal cove]

ah! It finally works haha

thank you both!

[toxic portal]

Sweet, !close to close I believe

all good

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