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Ask HN: Is there Python package that can read environment variables

1 points by zikohh 5y ago

pytest-mongodb https://github.com/mdomke/pytest-mongodb#migration-from-humongous requires 3 variables to be defined in pytest.ini these variables are already used in the code as environment variables. It doesn't make sense to duplicate the code in pytest.ini I saw that https://pypi.org/project/pytest-env/ let's you define environment variables but this isn't very intelligent since it's only one way. I want it to read and in pytest.ini e.g [pytest] x=$blah Are there any packages that can do this?

Godel_unicode 5y ago
You can read environment variables via os in the cpython standard library: os.environ["VARIABLE_NAME"]
- zikohh 5y ago
  But you can't run this in the pytest.ini I know I can add a fixture and do what you said but I want to do this inside the ini file. Similar to what tox has with passenv