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<li>Cast the val to a boolean DEBUG = bool(os.getenv("DEBUG")), and use an empty string to denote a false value <code>DEBUG=''</code>.</li>
<li>Use a more fully-featured package like <a href="https://github.com/joke2k/django-environ" rel="nofollow">django-environ</a>. There's slightly more configuration required, but if your project has multiple boolean settings it might be worth it. (I haven't actually used django-environ, but it looks pretty interesting so I may investigate).</li>
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<p>This is really helpful, thanks. Agreed—it seems strange that your PR was rejected, given that variables with False values get (confusingly) cast to True.</p>
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There's a couple of things you can do.</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Explicitly check for a string value. DEBUG = (os.getenv(\"DEBUG\") == 'true')</li>\n<li>Cast the val to a boolean DEBUG = bool(os.getenv(\"DEBUG\")), and use an empty string to denote a false value <code>DEBUG=''</code>.</li>\n<li>Use a more fully-featured package like <a href=\"https://github.com/joke2k/django-environ\" rel=\"nofollow\">django-environ</a>. There's slightly more configuration required, but if your project has multiple boolean settings it might be worth it. 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How do you manage Boolean with python-dotenv? I mean that ( for example)DEBUG
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Yeah, that's an unfortunate drawback of dotenv. There's a couple of things you
can do.
1. Explicitly check for a string value. DEBUG = (os.getenv("DEBUG") == 'true')
2. Cast the val to a boolean DEBUG = bool(os.getenv("DEBUG")), and use an empty string to denote a false value `DEBUG=''`.
3. Use a more fully-featured package like [django-environ](https://github.com/joke2k/django-environ). There's slightly more configuration required, but if your project has multiple boolean settings it might be worth it. (I haven't actually used django-environ, but it looks pretty interesting so I may investigate).
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There's a couple of things you can do.</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Explicitly check for a string value. DEBUG = (os.getenv(\"DEBUG\") == 'true')</li>\n<li>Cast the val to a boolean DEBUG = bool(os.getenv(\"DEBUG\")), and use an empty string to denote a false value <code>DEBUG=''</code>.</li>\n<li>Use a more fully-featured package like <a href=\"https://github.com/joke2k/django-environ\" rel=\"nofollow\">django-environ</a>. There's slightly more configuration required, but if your project has multiple boolean settings it might be worth it. 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How do you manage Boolean with python-dotenv? I mean that ( for example)DEBUG
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Yeah, that's an unfortunate drawback of dotenv. There's a couple of things you
can do.
1. Explicitly check for a string value. DEBUG = (os.getenv("DEBUG") == 'true')
2. Cast the val to a boolean DEBUG = bool(os.getenv("DEBUG")), and use an empty string to denote a false value `DEBUG=''`.
3. Use a more fully-featured package like [django-environ](https://github.com/joke2k/django-environ). There's slightly more configuration required, but if your project has multiple boolean settings it might be worth it. (I haven't actually used django-environ, but it looks pretty interesting so I may investigate).
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<p>How do you manage Boolean with python-dotenv? I mean that ( for example)DEBUG = True or DEBUG = False in .env file are always evaluated as True</p>
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<p>This is really helpful, thanks. Agreed—it seems strange that your PR was rejected, given that variables with False values get (confusingly) cast to True.</p>
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There's a couple of things you can do.</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Explicitly check for a string value. DEBUG = (os.getenv(\"DEBUG\") == 'true')</li>\n<li>Cast the val to a boolean DEBUG = bool(os.getenv(\"DEBUG\")), and use an empty string to denote a false value <code>DEBUG=''</code>.</li>\n<li>Use a more fully-featured package like <a href=\"https://github.com/joke2k/django-environ\" rel=\"nofollow\">django-environ</a>. There's slightly more configuration required, but if your project has multiple boolean settings it might be worth it. 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There's a couple of things you can do.</p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Explicitly check for a string value. DEBUG = (os.getenv(\"DEBUG\") == 'true')</li>\n<li>Cast the val to a boolean DEBUG = bool(os.getenv(\"DEBUG\")), and use an empty string to denote a false value <code>DEBUG=''</code>.</li>\n<li>Use a more fully-featured package like <a href=\"https://github.com/joke2k/django-environ\" rel=\"nofollow\">django-environ</a>. There's slightly more configuration required, but if your project has multiple boolean settings it might be worth it. 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How do you manage Boolean with python-dotenv? I mean that ( for example)DEBUG
= True or DEBUG = False in .env file are always evaluated as True
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Yeah, that's an unfortunate drawback of dotenv. There's a couple of things you
can do.
1. Explicitly check for a string value. DEBUG = (os.getenv("DEBUG") == 'true')
2. Cast the val to a boolean DEBUG = bool(os.getenv("DEBUG")), and use an empty string to denote a false value `DEBUG=''`.
3. Use a more fully-featured package like [django-environ](https://github.com/joke2k/django-environ). There's slightly more configuration required, but if your project has multiple boolean settings it might be worth it. (I haven't actually used django-environ, but it looks pretty interesting so I may investigate).
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