The way I do it is to add any env variables in a .env file in the same
directory level as settings.py and then use decouple.config
<https://pypi.org/project/python-decouple/> to extract the value from the
file like this:
SECRET_KEY = config("DJANGO_SECRET_KEY")
On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 9:18 PM Valdinia - Office <[email protected]>
wrote:
> On W10 I defined an environment variable: SECRET_KEY
> In shell I can read the key:
>
> *>>> import os*
> *>>> os.environ.get('SECRET_KEY')*
> 'mysecretkey...'
>
> But when I'm doing the same thing in *settings.py* I get:
>
> \lib\site-packages\django\conf\__init__.py", line 90, in __getattr__
> raise
> *ImproperlyConfigured("The SECRET_KEY setting must not be
> empty.")django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: The SECRET_KEY setting
> must not be empty.*
>
> I found all sorts of solutions, but none works for my app. What should I
> do?
>
> Thank you!
>
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