dotenv

Overview ¶

Package dotenv parses the subset of .env syntax `notenv namespace import` accepts. The dialect is documented and deliberately small. An importer for secrets must never guess:

• blank lines and full-line `#` comments are skipped; an unquoted value may carry a trailing comment when whitespace precedes the `#`
• an optional `export ` prefix is dropped
• unquoted values are trimmed of surrounding whitespace
• single-quoted values are literal, double-quoted values understand the \n, \r, \t, \", \\ escapes; both may span multiple lines
• there is no variable expansion of any kind: a secrets file is not a shell script, and silently expanding `$X` would corrupt real values

Anything else (a line without `=`, an unterminated quote, a stray escape) fails the parse with its line number, so an import is all-or-nothing.