First you should have anaconda

Then we need to find out where the environment is located

echo $CONDA_PREFIX

We’ll create create the sub-directories

cd $CONDA_PREFIX mkdir -p ./etc/conda/activate.d mkdir -p ./etc/conda/deactivate.d touch ./etc/conda/activate.d/env_vars.sh touch ./etc/conda/deactivate.d/env_vars.sh

We’ll have to input the variables in

./etc/conda/activate.d/env_vars.sh

For example here we will add a secret key and a path

#!/bin/sh export MY_KEY=’secret-key-value’ export MY_FILE=/path/to/my/file/

Also important to unset the variables when we deactivate the environment we will need to edit the file

./etc/conda/deactivate.d/env_vars.sh

and we will add the following commands

#!/bin/sh unset MY_KEY unset MY_FILE

If we are inside the environment and we run python we can import the key and the path the following way

import os os.environ.get(‘MY_KEY’)

and you will get -for this example- as output

‘secret-key-value’

This is the way to prevent committing to the repo private keys or private information}