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Does not load from current directory#108
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@RazerM
RazerM
opened on Apr 27, 2018

The README states (emphasis mine)

The easiest and most common usage consists on calling load_dotenv when the application starts, which will load environment variables from a file named .env in the current directory

I'm not finding this to be the case. load_dotenv defaults to calling find_dotenv():

python-dotenv/dotenv/main.py

Lines 249 to 251 in b20d818

def load_dotenv(dotenv_path=None, stream=None, verbose=False, override=False):
f = dotenv_path or stream or find_dotenv()
return DotEnv(f, verbose=verbose).set_as_environment_variables(override=override)

but usecwd defaults to False:

python-dotenv/dotenv/main.py

Lines 224 to 246 in b20d818

def find_dotenv(filename='.env', raise_error_if_not_found=False, usecwd=False):
"""
Search in increasingly higher folders for the given file
Returns path to the file if found, or an empty string otherwise
"""
if usecwd or '__file__' not in globals():
# should work without __file__, e.g. in REPL or IPython notebook
path = os.getcwd()
else:
# will work for .py files
frame_filename = sys._getframe().f_back.f_code.co_filename
path = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(frame_filename))
for dirname in _walk_to_root(path):
check_path = os.path.join(dirname, filename)
if os.path.exists(check_path):
return check_path
if raise_error_if_not_found:
raise IOError('File not found')
return ''

In my case, path becomes '<venv path>/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dotenv' on line 236 so the current directory is never traversed.

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