django 2 not able to load env variables from the .env file to setting.py file

Question

I tried to load environment variables from a file named .env to settings.py file here i created the .env file and settings file same folder.

this is my .env file

Answer 1

Try this instead:

import os
import environ

BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
environ.Env.read_env(env_file=os.path.join(BASE_DIR, '.env'))