How do you use python-decouple to load a .env file outside the expected paths?
If you look at the decouple implementation, config is just a pre-instantiated AutoConfig:
config = AutoConfig()
But AutoConfig takes as optional argument search_path
so we can do the following:
from decouple import AutoConfig
config = AutoConfig(search_path='/opt/envs/my-project')
Then you can do as usual:
secret_key = config('SECRET_KEY')
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 this helps someone.