shhh 0.0.0.dev1

Simple environment secret accessor for Python.

Shhh

Shhh is a dead simple secret accessor, that retrieves environment secrets, and secrets from files.

Installation

To install Shhh, use:

pip install shhh

With Poetry, do:

poetry add shhh

Usage

The only function is Shhh is get_secret. It returns an environment variable, unless a file exists on path provided in XXX_FILE variable. For example:

username: str = get_secret("APP_USERNAME")

Shhh searches for a file on path provided in APP_USERNAME_FILE variable and, if it exists, returns its content. Otherwise, returns the value of APP_USERNAME variable.

License

Shhh is licensed under MIT.

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