Configuring the Development Environment

As a senior engineer, you understand the importance of configuring your development environment for optimal workflow. In this section, we will discuss some key aspects of configuring the development environment.

1. Environment Variables

Environment variables are an essential part of configuring the development environment. They allow you to store configuration values that can be accessed by your applications. For example, you might store your API keys or database credentials as environment variables.

To set environment variables in Python, you can use the os module. Here's an example:

1import os
2
3# Set environment variable
4os.environ['API_KEY'] = 'your-api-key'
5
6# Retrieve environment variable
7api_key = os.environ.get('API_KEY')

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if __name__ == "__main__":

  # Python logic here

  config_file = open("config.txt", "w")

  config_file.write("Setting up the development environment")

  config_file.close()

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  print("Development environment configured successfully")