ENV variables can never seem to be False

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In my .env file I have HTML_DEBUG=True but os.environ['HTML_DEBUG'] is always True even if I have HTML_DEBUG=False
I had to resort to .lower() == "true" in my config.

HTML_DEBUG = os.environ['HTML_DEBUG']
HTML_DEBUG = HTML_DEBUG.lower() == "true"

Why is HTML_DEBUG being treated as a string ?

2

When you parse variable from .env then it is in string form i.e

"True" or "False" instead of True or False

In order to use them, convert them in boolean.

3

You can try this

Define a variable in setting like this DEBUG = env.bool(“DEBUG”)

in .env file
DEBUG=True

4

Yes env.bool(“DEBUG”) can be used but in above code snippet os.environ is being used. In order to use env.bool an additional package needs to be installed which is django-environ and then in settings configure

import environ
env = environ.Env()

then it can be utilized.