{"categories":[{"label":"Software Development","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/software-development/10"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Automatically loads environment variables from a .env file into your application when a specific environment variable is set, without requiring explicit code changes.","skillfed_tags":["env-config","abandoned"],"use_cases":["Development environments where you want .env files loaded automatically without modifying application code.","Keeping production code free of development-only configuration logic by relying on environment variables to trigger loading.","Quick setup for small projects where adding explicit load_dotenv() calls feels like unnecessary boilerplate.","Testing scenarios where you want to toggle .env loading on and off via an environment variable without code changes."],"what_it_does":"load-dotenv wraps python-dotenv to automatically load environment variables from a .env file during application startup, triggered by setting the LOAD_DOTENV environment variable to true, yes, or 1. This avoids the need to add explicit load_dotenv() calls in your code, which is useful if you want to keep production code clean while still supporting .env-based configuration during development.\n\nThe package is designed as a convenience layer: instead of manually invoking python-dotenv in your application code, you set an environment variable before running your app and the .env file is loaded implicitly. You can also specify a custom path to the .env file via the LOAD_DOTENV_PATH variable. However, the project has been abandoned since its only release in September 2022, so it may not be compatible with recent versions of python-dotenv or Python itself.","worth_installing":"No. The package is abandoned (last release September 2022, no maintenance since), and its core value\u2014avoiding one line of code\u2014is minimal compared to the risk of incompatibility with current python-dotenv versions or Python releases. Use python-dotenv directly with an explicit load_dotenv() call instead; it is actively maintained and the one-line cost is negligible."},"id":"load-dotenv","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/load-dotenv","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/load-dotenv.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/load-dotenv/"},"maintenance":{"status":"abandoned"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2022-09-02","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"permissive","name":"load-dotenv","python_support":"unspecified","summary":"Automatically and implicitly load environment variables from .env file"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":266146,"position":8307,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"0.1.0"}