Poetry Dotenv Plugin

A Poetry plugin that automatically loads environment variables from .env files into the environment before poetry commands are run.

Supports Python 3.6+

$ cat .env
MY_ENV_VAR='Hello World'

$ poetry run python -c 'import os; print(os.environ.get("MY_ENV_VAR"))'
Hello World

This plugin depends on the python-dotenv package for its functionality and therefore also supports features that python-dotenv supports. Interpolating variables using POSIX variable expansion for example.

Origins

Initial implementation based on the event handler application plugin example in the Poetry docs.

Install

poetry plugin add poetry-dotenv-plugin

Coming from Pipenv

If you are transitioning from pipenv there shouldn't be much to change with regard to the .env loading. If you were a user of pipenv's environment variables to control .env loading then you can use the analogous environment variables listed below.