From 1e1a73d10b66a4720ebd1e321a049d96cd93a351 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dominic MacIsaac <dmacisaac@ewu.edu>
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2024 12:32:34 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] adding load_dotenv() to properly load environment variables

---
 config.template.py | 3 +++
 requirements.txt   | 1 +
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/config.template.py b/config.template.py
index 400e51cd..b410ae73 100644
--- a/config.template.py
+++ b/config.template.py
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@
 # Config - defines
 import os
 
+# loads environment variables from a .env file into os.environ
+from dotenv import load_dotenv
+load_dotenv() 
 
 class Config(object):
     #####
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 1f752a7f..4805594a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@ requests==2.32.0
 tornado==6.3.3
 urllib3==1.26.18
 docker==5.0.3
+python-dotenv==1.0.1