keyway 1.0.4

A solution for persistent environment variables.

Keyway

Persistent environment variables!

A simple solution to prevent accidentally uploading your API keys to GitHub. Functions similarly to normal environment variables, except the keys and values persist through restarts.

pip install keyway 

Import with

import keyway
kw = keyway.Keyway()

Set, access, and delete keys like a dictionary.

kw["alpha"] = "an api key"
kw["bravo"] = "a setting"
kw["charlie"] = 42

kw["alpha"]
#>> "an api key"

del kw["alpha"]

Missing keys return None.

kw["alpha"]
#>> None

Keys are not stored in memory.

kw.keys()
#>> dict_keys([])

To retrieve a dictionary of all of a user's keys, use the "all" keyword. All keys are stored as text for simplicity.

kw[all]
#>> {'bravo': 'a variable', 'charlie': '42'}

To delete all of a user's keys, use the "all" keyword.

del kw[all]
kw[all]
#>> {}

• By default, keys are stored in a sqlite database in the active environment folder

  • Never upload your virtual environment to github.
  • Optionally set a custom path and/or database name like:

    • kw = keyway.Keyway(path = "your/custom/path", db_name = "custom_name")
      

  • You can also optionally set a user for the keyway instance:

    • kw = keyway.Keyway(user = "username")
      

  • The "all" keyword can be disabled with

    • kw = keyway.Keyway(use_all = False)
      

  • Keys are encrypted using fernet.
    • This way, there is not a plaintext or easily accessible record of any of the keys.
    • Moving the database from its original location will cause the data to become unreadable. This is by design, so that even if someone has the database file, they are unable to access the keys without knowing the original path.
    • The cryptography library is the only external dependency.

• License: MIT