Dealing with Secrets

Never ever hardcode snsitive information, especially when publishing it. Put whatever holds the secrets into .gitignore.

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• dotenv (Python)

Dotenv

L main.py
L .env

PASSWORD=password1234

import os # necessary
from dotenv import load_dotenv

load_dotenv('.env') # Loads into OS

password = os.getenv('PASSWORD') # Gets from the OS

(os.getenv("HOME") is Bash environmental variables $ env)

YAML