Travis CI env vars not being used in regression tests

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I have set up my credentials (username/password) as environment variables in Travis CI. In my code, I am using the following snippet to retrieve these environment variables:

username = os.environ.get("HITRAN_USERNAME") or input("Enter HITRAN username: ")password = os.environ.get("HITRAN_PASSWORD") or getpass("Enter HITRAN password: ")

However, my tests are still prompting for credential input. How can I ensure that Travis CI correctly uses the environment variables? What might I be doing wrong?

I tried pulling env variables in the test, that didnt work aswell

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Hi @Mearsheimer,

You should try adding a debug step in .travis.yml:

before_script:
  - echo "HITRAN_USERNAME is set to: $HITRAN_USERNAME"

If this prints an empty string, then the variables are not available. My second option to you is manually inject the environment variables in your .travis.yml:

env:
  global:
    - HITRAN_USERNAME=your_username
    - HITRAN_PASSWORD=your_password

However, do not hardcode secrets in the .travis.yml file. Instead, prefer the Travis UI settings.

As it pertains to your snippet of Python, from what I read of it - it’s not passing the variables really effectively. You’d have more success by doing something like:

import os

username = os.getenv("HITRAN_USERNAME")
password = os.getenv("HITRAN_PASSWORD")

if not username or not password:
    raise ValueError("HITRAN credentials are missing from environment variables.")

This should solve the issue.

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@montana,

seems like its building now

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@Mearsheimer,

I’m glad I could help you solve the problem.