How to hide API keys using Python

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Sometimes you need to store sensitive information in your code , For example, password or API secret key , And in the Python The simplest way to do this is to use os and dotenv modular .

So , You need to install dotenv modular , and os Module is standard Python modular , No installation required .

On the command line , Input ：

pip install python-dotenv

Or for Python 3

pip3 install python-dotenv

hypothesis .env The contents of the file are ：

API_KEY="abcd123"

A good practice is to include a in your project .env file , It contains examples of each secret variable you are using . The contents of this document are as follows ：

API_KEY="abcd123"

To load it into your python In file , You should ：

import os
from dotenv import load_dotenv
load_dotenv()
API_KEY = os.getenv("API_KEY")

Good！ Now? , You are hiding data correctly ！