Installation on Windows

[Ironclad17]

For easy updating, can you update the pypi entry or add a setup script or toml file?

[radude]

I'll try to figure it out again (was done before by a dev that is no longer available). For now you can just clone the repo, install the venv and requirements and it should work fine on windows.

[Ironclad17]

Hi again, the readme instructions don't appear to be correct and there's a mix of Windows and unix commands. I understand you want to take the url from the .env "env_example", but even if you manually rename the extension, the script isn't loading the .env values from "env_example.env". I think the use of load_dotenv() and dotenv_values() are incorrect. Unless you add the values from env_example to env separately before you run the script, load_dotenv() will only load values from os.environ. dotenv_values() is empty unless you set the path to "env_example.env"

C:\Users\*\repos\rentry>rentry.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\*\repos\rentry\rentry.py", line 11, in <module>
    from dotenv import load_dotenv, dotenv_values
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'dotenv'

C:\Users\*\repos\rentry>py
Python 3.12.6 (tags/v3.12.6:a4a2d2b, Sep  6 2024, 20:11:23) [MSC v.1940 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from dotenv import load_dotenv, dotenv_values
>>> load_dotenv()
False
>>> env = dotenv_values(".env")
>>> env['BASE_PROTOCOL']
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
KeyError: 'BASE_PROTOCOL'
>>> env
OrderedDict()
>>> env.keys()
odict_keys([])
>>> env = dotenv_values("env_example.env")
>>> env
OrderedDict({'BASE_PROTOCOL': 'https://', 'BASE_URL': 'rentry.co'})

[Ironclad17]

As is users need to manually edit the script and keep a separate env file accessible. I don't really see why dotenv is being used just to fill 2 entries in a dictionary.

[radude]

I can switch it out for os.getenv