How to hide my login and password in the python script?

Question:

How can i not show the login ID and password in the python script?

Is there any library or command can I hide those information?

For example:

login_id = "secret_id" instead of login_id = "[email protected]"

password = "secret_password" instead of password = "1234ABCD"

Asked By: John Lee

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Answers:

Maybe put the information in a text file, and read the text file into your python script?

with open('credentials.txt') as f:
    lines = f.readlines()
    login_id  = lines[0].strip()
    password = lines[1].strip()

With the id on line 1 of your text file and the password on line 2.

Answered By: nessuno

You can use environment variables to decouple credentials and other sensitive content from your Python scripts.

import os

# Get environment variables
login_id = os.getenv('MY_LOGIN_ID')
password = os.environ.get('MY_PASSWORD')

You can configure this on OS level using

export MY_LOGIN_ID="my login"
export MY_PASSWORD="my password"
Answered By: Allan Chua