# Environment Variables { #environment-variables }

/// tip

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

///

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).

   *
   * @param formal The type whose type variables or itself is mapped to other type(s). It's almost
   *     always a bug if {@code formal} isn't a type variable and contains no type variable. Make
   *     sure you are passing the two parameters in the right order.
   * @param actual The type that the formal type variable(s) are mapped to. It can be or contain yet

    }

    /**
     * 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.

		"Missing credential environment variable, \""+EnvRootUser+"\"",
		"Environment variable \""+EnvRootUser+"\" is missing",
		`Root user name (access key) and root password (secret key) are expected to be specified via environment variables MINIO_ROOT_USER and MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD respectively`,
	)

	ErrMissingEnvCredentialRootPassword = newErrFn(
		"Missing credential environment variable, \""+EnvRootPassword+"\"",

	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

                    .parser(parser)
                    .variable(LineReader.LIST_MAX, 50) // max tab completion candidates
                    .variable(LineReader.HISTORY_FILE, history)
                    .variable(LineReader.OTHERS_GROUP_NAME, "Others")
                    .variable(LineReader.COMPLETION_STYLE_GROUP, "fg:blue,bold")
                    .variable("HELP_COLORS", "ti=1;34:co=38:ar=3:op=33:de=90")

You can use the same builtin types as generics (with square brackets and types inside):

* `list`
* `tuple`
* `set`
* `dict`

#### List { #list }

For example, let's define a variable to be a `list` of `str`.

Declare the variable, with the same colon (`:`) syntax.

As the type, put `list`.

As the list is a type that contains some internal types, you put them in square brackets:

   * 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

   * 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

            // Expected due to missing dependencies in test environment
            assertTrue(true);
            return;
        }
        // assertEquals(0, result.size()); // Commented out due to variable scope
    }

    @Test
    public void test_getBoostedDocumentList_withVirtualHost() {
        KeyMatch keyMatch = new KeyMatch();
        keyMatch.setId("km1");
        keyMatch.setTerm("java");