Handling Secrets in Django.

Method 1:

Pre Steps:

• Create a virtual enviroment.
• Create a file with name .env then add the secrets like.

export DB_PASSWORD='XYZABZ'
export SUPER_SECRET='OMG!!'

Post Step

• Then

echo 'set -a; source .env; set +a' >> ./env/bin/activate

• This will append the line to activate file now everytime you activate the env you can access these secret variables.

• Now, you can use the below code to access the variables inside python.
  

import os

os.getenv('NAME_HERE')

Method 2:

Pre Steps:

• Create a virtual enviroment.
• Create a file with name .env then add the secrets like.

export DB_PASSWORD='XYZABZ'
export SUPER_SECRET='OMG!!'

Post Step

• Then install python-dotenv package using pip install python-dotenv.
• Open wsgi.py and add these lines.

...
from dotenv import load_dotenv
from django.conf import settings

:
:

load_dotenv(os.path.join(settings.BASE_DIR, '.env'))
...

• Now, you can use the os.getenv('NAME_HERE') to access the variables inside python.

• @vivekascoder