Boolean field about python-dotenv HOT 3 CLOSED

Short answer is No. This library only support string. string are the only thing possible to be set as system environment variable.

You can have your own logic or something like django-environ to read from environment variable and parse it to a valid data structure.

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You can use this small helper lib to parse a env var to boolean: https://pypi.org/project/env-flag/

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Since it reads strings is the simplest solution not:

# .env .. for False set ""
KEY_TRUE="1"
KEY_FALSE=""

# manage.py..
assert Bool(os.getenv('KEY_TRUE')
assert not Bool(os.getenv('KEY_FALSE')

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