Function get_key

src/dotenv/main.py:125–135

Get the value of a given key from the given .env. Returns `None` if the key isn't found or doesn't have a value.

(
    dotenv_path: StrPath,
    key_to_get: str,
    encoding: Optional[str] = "utf-8",
)

def get_key(
    dotenv_path: StrPath,
    key_to_get: str,
    encoding: Optional[str] = "utf-8",
) -> Optional[str]:
    """
    Get the value of a given key from the given .env.

    Returns `None` if the key isn't found or doesn't have a value.
    """
    return DotEnv(dotenv_path, verbose=True, encoding=encoding).get(key_to_get)


@contextmanager