# Environment Variables { #environment-variables }

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If you already know what "environment variables" are and how to use them, feel free to skip this.

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An environment variable (also known as "**env var**") is a variable that lives **outside** of the Python code, in the **operating system**, and could be read by your Python code (or by other programs as well).

Aprenderás más sobre cómo usar variables de entorno para manejar **configuraciones de aplicación** en la [Guía del Usuario Avanzado - Ajustes y Variables de Entorno](./advanced/settings.md){.internal-link target=_blank}.

## Variable de Entorno `PATH`

Hay una variable de entorno **especial** llamada **`PATH`** que es utilizada por los sistemas operativos (Linux, macOS, Windows) para encontrar programas a ejecutar.

	RET
TEXT ·a8(SB), 0, $0-0
	CMPL runtime·writeBarrier(SB), $0
	ADDQ AX, R15 // ERROR "when dynamic linking, R15 is clobbered by a global variable access and is used here"
	RET
TEXT ·a9(SB), 0, $0-0
	CMPL runtime·writeBarrier(SB), $0
	ORQ R15, R15 // ERROR "when dynamic linking, R15 is clobbered by a global variable access and is used here"
	RET

$ python main.py

// As we didn't set the env var, we get the default value

Hello World from Python

// But if we create an environment variable first
$ export MY_NAME="Wade Wilson"

// And then call the program again
$ python main.py

// Now it can read the environment variable

Hello Wade Wilson from Python
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$ python main.py

// As we didn't set the env var, we get the default value

Hello World from Python

// But if we create an environment variable first
$ export MY_NAME="Wade Wilson"

// And then call the program again
$ python main.py

// Now it can read the environment variable

Hello Wade Wilson from Python
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    /**
     * Returns the system environment variable value for the specified key.
     *
     * @param key the environment variable key
     * @return the environment variable value, or null if not found
     */
    public static String getEnv(String key) {
        return System.getenv(key);
    }

    /**
     * Returns the system environment variable value for the specified key, or the default value if not found.

# variables in it, OR may be left empty if the user has already exported the
# relevant variables in their environment. Because of 'set -o allexport' above
# (which is equivalent to "set -a"), every variable in the file is exported
# for other files to use.
#
# Separately, if TFCI is set *and* there are also additional TFCI_ variables

import org.apache.maven.api.annotations.Nonnull;
import org.apache.maven.api.annotations.Nullable;

/**
 * The Interpolator service provides methods for variable substitution in strings and maps.
 * It allows for the replacement of placeholders (e.g., ${variable}) with their corresponding values.
 *
 * @since 4.0.0
 */
@Experimental
public interface Interpolator extends Service {

    /**

:end
@rem End local scope for the variables with windows NT shell
if %ERRORLEVEL% equ 0 goto mainEnd

:fail
rem Set variable GRADLE_EXIT_CONSOLE if you need the _script_ return code instead of
rem the _cmd.exe /c_ return code!
set EXIT_CODE=%ERRORLEVEL%
if %EXIT_CODE% equ 0 set EXIT_CODE=1
if not ""=="%GRADLE_EXIT_CONSOLE%" exit %EXIT_CODE%
exit /b %EXIT_CODE%

:mainEnd

   * add the suppression to the whole method (which turns off checking for a large section of code),
   * or extract a variable, and put the suppression on that. However, a local variable typically
   * doesn't work: Because nullness analyses typically infer the nullness of local variables,
   * there's no way to assign a {@code @Nullable T} to a field {@code T foo;} and instruct the