setting environment variables in heroku for flask app

Question

I have a flask application that uses different configuration files for development and production environments. The relevant piece of code is this:

app.conf         


        

Answer 1

You should use a env variable to look if you are in dev or heroku.

heroku config:set IS_HEROKU=True 

Then in your file

import os
is_prod = os.environ.get('IS_HEROKU', None)

if is_prod:
    #here goes all your heroku config