How it Works

This package uses python-dotenv to read and load environmental variables from .env files, and cryptography for encrypting and decrypting .env files.

The purpose of this package is to avoid plain text .env files by encrypting them, which can be useful in cases where the .env file is shared unintentionally (e.g. committed by accident, forgot to remove before sending in an email, malicious access when leaving computer unattended).

The scope of this package is limited to:

1. Encrypting/decrypting .env files with a randomly generated key

2. Loading environmental variables from encrypted .env files into Python

3. Saving environmental variables from Python into encrypted .env files

For more details, see the API Reference for source code and documentation.