Short one. I wanted to setup an API key env variable in such a way that it’s easily available to Jupyter.
It turns out that the easiest way is by adding it to IPython startup directly.
You can find the path under, ~/.ipython/profile_default/startup/00-startup.py and if it’s not present, create it.
The code that you add in this file is Python and can look in the following format:
import os
os.environ['MY_VAR'] = 'my_value'After you saved the edited file, don’t forget to restart the kernel.
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