How to set environment variables in PyCharm

Question

I have started to work on a Django project  and I would like to set some environment variables without setting them manually or having a bash file to source  I want to set the following variables  export DATABASE URL postgres   127 0 0 1 5432 my db name export DEBUG 1   there are other variables  but they contain personal information  I have read this  but that does not solve what I want  In addition  I have tried setting the environment variables in Preferences- gt  Build  Execution  Deployment- gt Console- gt Python Console Django Console  but it sets the variables for the interpreter

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I was able to figure out this using a PyCharm plugin called EnvFile. This plugin, basically allows setting environment variables to run configurations from one or multiple files.

The installation is pretty simple:

Preferences > Plugins > Browse repositories... > Search for "Env File" > Install Plugin.

Then, I created a file, in my project root, called environment.env which contains:

DATABASE_URL=postgres://127.0.0.1:5432/my_db_name
DEBUG=1

Then I went to Run->Edit Configurations, and I followed the steps in the next image:

In 3, I chose the file environment.env, and then I could just click the play button in PyCharm, and everything worked like a charm.

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This is what you can do to source an  env  and  flaskenv  file in the pycharm flask django console  It would also work for a normal python console of course   Do pip install python-dotenv in your environment  the same as being pointed to by pycharm    Go to  Settings  gt  Build  Execution  Deployment  gt  Console  gt  Flask django Console  In  quot starting script quot  include something like this near the top  from dotenv import load dotenv load dotenv verbose True    The  env file can look like this  export KEY VALUE It doesn t matter if one includes export or not for dotenv to read it  As an alternative you could also source the  env file in the activate shell script for the respective virtual environement

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You can set environmental variables in Pycharm s run configurations menu    Open the Run Configuration selector in the top-right and cick Edit Configurations      Find Environmental variables and click       Add or change variables  then click OK     You can access your environmental variables with os environ  import os print os environ  SOME VAR

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This functionality has been added to the IDE now  working Pycharm 2018 3   Just click the EnvFile tab in the run configuration  click Enable EnvFile and click the   icon to add an env file     Update  Essentially the same as the answer by  imguelvargasf but the the plugin was enabled by default for me

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None of the above methods worked for me  If you are on Windows  try this on PyCharm terminal  setx YOUR VAR  quot VALUE quot   You can access it in your scripts using os environ  YOUR VAR

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