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The .env file and the python-dotenv package are popular conventions in Python for managing environment variables. I often forget or pause when trying to remember exactly which package I need to install (python-dotenv) and how to do the import
I use direnv to manage my shell environment for projects. When using a Jupyter notebook within a project, I realized that the environment variables in my .envrc file were not being made available to my notebooks. The following worked for me as a low-effort way to load my environment into the...
This post is extremely similar to nix flakes and direnv. Here, I repeated my process, but with a little more thought and a little less language model magic.
Last year I wrote about nix and direnv as I explored the potential convenience of an isolated, project-specific environment. There were some interesting initial learnings about nix, but I didn't really know what I was doing. Now, I still don't know what I'm doing, but I've been doing it for...