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theskumar
python-dotenv 0.9.2 does not load .env file from current directory
I'm trying to use python-dotenv 0.9.2, and it appears that it does not load the .env file from the current directory, which is unexpected and surprising.
With a script located in ~/.local/share/virtualenvs/guac_py-TCd6GOsM/bin/guac, loading modules from /home/lars/.local/share/virtualenvs/guac_py-TCd6GOsM/lib/python3.10/site-packages/guac/cmd/.env, I see it look for .env in the following locations when running with strace:
newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/lars/.local/share/virtualenvs/guac_py-TCd6GOsM/lib/python3.10/site-packages/guac/cmd/.env", 0x7ffc7644fee0, 0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/lars/.local/share/virtualenvs/guac_py-TCd6GOsM/lib/python3.10/site-packages/guac/.env", 0x7ffc7644fee0, 0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/lars/.local/share/virtualenvs/guac_py-TCd6GOsM/lib/python3.10/site-packages/.env", 0x7ffc7644fee0, 0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/lars/.local/share/virtualenvs/guac_py-TCd6GOsM/lib/python3.10/.env", 0x7ffc7644fee0, 0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/lars/.local/share/virtualenvs/guac_py-TCd6GOsM/lib/.env", 0x7ffc7644fee0, 0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/lars/.local/share/virtualenvs/guac_py-TCd6GOsM/.env", 0x7ffc7644fee0, 0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/lars/.local/share/virtualenvs/.env", 0x7ffc7644fee0, 0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/lars/.local/share/.env", 0x7ffc7644fee0, 0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/lars/.local/.env", 0x7ffc7644fee0, 0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/lars/.env", 0x7ffc7644fee0, 0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/.env", 0x7ffc7644fee0, 0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
newfstatat(AT_FDCWD, "/.env", 0x7ffc7644fee0, 0) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
It appears to be looking for .env relative to the path to the
calling module, rather than the current working directory.
This behavior seems to be dependent on how the package is installed. If I flit install --symlink the project, we see the behavior described above. If I pip install -e . the project, it seems to work as expected.
