Environment variables from .env file are not loaded

[jkoessle]

Describe the bug I'm using environment variables from a .env file. It seems that when using scalene, these variable are not loaded -> os.getenv("MY_VARIABLE") returns None and os.environ["MY_VARIABLE"] returns a KeyError at runtime. In normal Python execution, it loads the environment variables without any problems.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create a .env file in your project
2. Create a key/value pair like HELLO="world"
3. Load the env variable in your program either with os.getenv("HELLO") or os.environ["HELLO"]
4. See error

Expected behavior I would expect scalene to load the environment variables from the .env file at runtime/profiling.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: macOS 14.4.1
• VSCode
• Python 3.10

[jkoessle]

Solved it by explicitly loading the environment variables using load_dotenv() from the dotenv package.