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Month: September 2020

Storing Credentials for Scripts Outside of Version Control (Environment Variables Example)

November 5, 2022September 5, 2020 by Tristan Self

So you have a Python script (for example), and you need to store some access credentials for an API it accesses (for example), now you could put the username and password in the script. There’s lots of reasons not to do this however, a key one being that if you are using a version control … Read more

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