Env Python Packages

python-dotenv

Reads key-value pairs from a .env file and can set them as environment variables. It helps in developing applications following the 12-factor principles.

poetry-dotenv-plugin

A Poetry plugin to automatically load environment variables from .env files

environ-config

Python Application Configuration With Environment Variables

smart-getenv

Wrapper for os.getenv that achieves return values of a specified type

python-dotenvx

a secure dotenv–from the creator of `dotenv`

poetry-plugin-dotenv

🧩 Poetry plugin that loads environment variables from a dotenv file before commands run

dotenvmodel

Type-safe environment configuration with automatic .env file loading. Pydantic-style fields, intelligent .env cascading, and auto-generated docs.

python-dotenv-vault

Load environment variables from encrypted .env.vault files

goodconf

Transparently load variables from environment or JSON/YAML/TOML file.

evnx

A comprehensive CLI tool for managing .env files — validation, secret scanning, and format conversion.

container-app-conf

Convenient configuration of containerized applications

envstack

layered, structural environment management

12factor-configclasses

Like dataclasses but for config.

betterconf

Minimalistic Python library for your configs.

envclasses

envclasses is a library to map fields on dataclass object to environment variables.

envwrap

:package: Override parameter defaults via environment variables & config files

python-readenv

readenv makes easy to automatically load environment variables from .env file(s) into os.environ.

django-confy

A comfy config for Django

config2

Python environment configuration simplified - highly inspired by `node-config`.

msgspec-conf

msgspec-conf: a msgspec-based settings loader for Python. Load structured config from env vars, .env, YAML and TOML. A lightweight pydantic-settings alternative.

namedtupled

Lightweight namedtuple wrapper for attribute-style data access (a la JavaScript objects).

django-environment-config

Configure django settings for multiple environments.

notenv

Encrypted .env replacement: secrets encrypted client-side, stored on storage you already own, injected into your process.

align-dotenv

Align local dotenv files with their templates while preserving existing values. Available for Python (pip, pipx, uv) and Node.js (npm).