Function find_dotenv

src/dotenv/main.py:270–308

Search in increasingly higher folders for the given file Returns path to the file if found, or an empty string otherwise

(
    filename: str = '.env',
    raise_error_if_not_found: bool = False,
    usecwd: bool = False,
)

def find_dotenv(
    filename: str = '.env',
    raise_error_if_not_found: bool = False,
    usecwd: bool = False,
) -> str:
    """
    Search in increasingly higher folders for the given file

    Returns path to the file if found, or an empty string otherwise
    """

    def _is_interactive():
        """ Decide whether this is running in a REPL or IPython notebook """
        main = __import__('__main__', None, None, fromlist=['__file__'])
        return not hasattr(main, '__file__')

    if usecwd or _is_interactive() or getattr(sys, 'frozen', False):
        # Should work without __file__, e.g. in REPL or IPython notebook.
        path = os.getcwd()
    else:
        # will work for .py files
        frame = sys._getframe()
        current_file = __file__

        while frame.f_code.co_filename == current_file:
            assert frame.f_back is not None
            frame = frame.f_back
        frame_filename = frame.f_code.co_filename
        path = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(frame_filename))

    for dirname in _walk_to_root(path):
        check_path = os.path.join(dirname, filename)
        if os.path.isfile(check_path):
            return check_path

    if raise_error_if_not_found:
        raise IOError('File not found')

    return ''


def load_dotenv(