Extension for configuring Flask from environment variables.

• Flask

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pip install flask-envconfig

Simple usage:

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from flask import Flask
from flask.ext.envconfig import EnvConfig

app = Flask(__name__)
env = EnvConfig(app)

Or, for the application factory pattern:

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env = EnvConfig()
# At a later time
env.init_app(app)

Now set your configuration variables in your shell, .env file or whatever:

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FLASK_DEBUG=True
FLASK_SECRET_KEY="Something_or_the_other"

By default only environments variables prefixed with FLASK_ are processed and added to app.config. The extension strips off the prefix so FLASK_DEBUG becomes app.config['DEBUG'] and so forth. The extension understands "True" to mean True, "False" to mean False and "None" to mean None. It also understands lists, tuples and dicts and numbers.

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FLASK_TRUE=True
FLASK_FALSE=False
FLASK_NONE=None
FLASK_INTEGER=1
FLASK_FLOAT=1.1
FLASK_STRING="This is a string"
FLASK_LIST="['a', 'b', 'c']"
FLASK_TUPLE="('a', 'b', 'c')"
FLASK_DICT="{'a': 1, 'b': 6}"

The prefix can be changed if so desired:

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EnvConfig(app, 'MYPREFIX_')

Or

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env = EnvConfig()
env.init_app(app, 'MYPREFIX_')