Fix Python – setting an environment variable in virtualenv

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Asked By – Mahmoud Hanafy

I have a Heroku project that uses environment variables to get its configuration, but I use virtualenv to test my app locally first.

Is there a way to set the environment variables defined on the remote machine inside virtualenv?

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Update

As of 17th May 2017 the README of autoenv states that direnv is probably the better option and implies autoenv is no longer maintained.

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I wrote autoenv to do exactly this:

https://github.com/kennethreitz/autoenv

This question is answered By – Kenneth Reitz

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