philiprehberger-env-file 0.1.1

.env file parser with interpolation and multi-file support

philiprehberger-env-file

.env file parser with interpolation and multi-file support.

Installation

pip install philiprehberger-env-file

Usage

Load into Environment

from philiprehberger_env_file import load_env

# Load .env (default)
load_env()

# Load multiple files (later files override earlier)
load_env(".env", ".env.local")

# Don't override existing env vars
load_env(override=False)

Parse Without Modifying Environment

from philiprehberger_env_file import parse_env_file

config = parse_env_file(".env")
print(config["DATABASE_URL"])

Supported Syntax

# Comments
KEY=value
export KEY=value

# Quoted values
SINGLE='no interpolation here'
DOUBLE="supports\nnewlines"

# Variable interpolation
BASE_URL=https://api.example.com
API_URL=${BASE_URL}/v1

# Empty values
EMPTY_VAR=

# Inline comments (unquoted values only)
HOST=localhost # this is a comment

API

• load_env(*paths, override=True) — Load .env files into os.environ, returns dict of loaded vars
• parse_env_file(path) — Parse a .env file, returns dict without modifying environment

License

MIT