I am working on a python project using Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu OS and I need to set environment variables without using the integrated terminal, I want to be able to set it using a file or an efficient medium asides my terminal.

Please help

CodePudding user response：

/etc/environment is the second boot file when logging into the Linux system.

You can use the following command to open, or open the file in the directory:

~$ sudo gedit /etc/environment

Environment variables are defined here. We can add environment variables you need, such as:

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games"

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/home/yan/anaconda2/bin"

So we add anaconda2 to PATH environment variable.

CodePudding user response：

So I was able to find a solution that enabled me specify my variables in a .env file in Visual Studio Code

I used a python module called python-dotenv the setup for installing it can be found in https://pypi.org/project/python-dotenv/

So follow these steps:

1. In your Visual Studio Code integrated terminal, install python-dotenv using pip install python-dotenv

2. In your python code add this at the top of the code

from dotenv import load_dotenv

load_dotenv() 

3. In your code folder i.e where the python code specified above lies, create a file called .env

4. Now specify all your environment variables inside the .env file e.g

DB_PORT=1212
DB_NAME=test_db
DB_USER=test_user

5. Now run the python code and watch the environment variable work in action