read environment variable in python code example

Example 1: get environment variables python

import os

# Set environment variables
os.environ['API_USER'] = 'username'
os.environ['API_PASSWORD'] = 'secret'

# Get environment variables
USER = os.getenv('API_USER')
PASSWORD = os.environ.get('API_PASSWORD')

# Getting non-existent keys
FOO = os.getenv('FOO') # None
BAR = os.environ.get('BAR') # None
BAZ = os.environ['BAZ'] # KeyError: key does not exist.

Example 2: how to create a variable in python

variable1 = "value" # string
variable2 = 1000000 # integer
variable3 = 10000.0 # real/float
variable4 = True # boolean: True or False