.env vars inside virtualenvs

[startakovsky]

Hi, I am coming from using pipenv enjoyed that pipenv automatically instantiated assignments in the file .env. Does poetry offer any analog within the virtual environment? I am familiar with python-dotenv but would prefer avoiding that in my library.

[finswimmer]

Poetry does not support this out-of-the-box, because we believe this is not a task for a development tool. Instead either the application should be responsible to load the env vars e.g. by python-dotenv or it's part of the installation process of the application.

However, poetry plugins exists, e.g. https://pypi.org/project/poetry-plugin-dotenv/

[mpeteuil]

There is also https://pypi.org/project/poetry-dotenv-plugin/ ¹ which relies on python-dotenv to do much of the work², making the plugin code very simple. Either should solve this issue though.

Footnotes

1. It's confusing that there are two with essentially the same name. This one was created before there was a naming convention to follow. ↩

2. you won't need python-dotenv as a dependency in your project ↩