Environment Variables

Environment variables allow you to store values that you do not want exposed to others. Docrunner allows you to load these in through the docrunner.toml configuration file

You can learn more about docrunner configuration here

.env

SECRET_TOKEN=secretvalue

docrunner.toml

[docrunner]

markdown_paths = ['README.md']

dotenv = '.env'

• In this docrunner.toml file we tell docrunner that we want to load the values in .env into our environment, using the dotenv option

We can now access the environment variables in .env in our code snippets:

```python

import os

# Retrieve the SECRET_VALUE from our environment

SECRET_VALUE = os.getenv('SECRET_VALUE')

```