# 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).

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To understand environment variables you can read [Environment Variables](../environment-variables.md){.internal-link target=_blank}.

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## Types and validation { #types-and-validation }

These environment variables can only handle text strings, as they are external to Python and have to be compatible with other programs and the rest of the system (and even with different operating systems, as Linux, Windows, macOS).

   *
   * @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 a {@link Map} where the keys are the type variables and the values are the type arguments
     * of the specified parameterized type (class or interface).
     *
     * @param clazz
     *            the parameterized type (class or interface) to analyze. Cannot be null.
     * @return a {@link Map} where the keys are the type variables and the values are the type arguments
     */

mc cat myminio-newuser/my-bucketname/my-objectname
```

### Policy Variables

You can use policy variables in the *Resource* element and in string comparisons in the *Condition* element.

```bash
~ mc admin config set myminio compression enable="on" extensions="" mime_types=""
```

The compression settings may also be set through environment variables.
When set, environment variables override the defined `compress` config settings in the server config.

```bash
export MINIO_COMPRESSION_ENABLE="on"
export MINIO_COMPRESSION_EXTENSIONS=".txt,.log,.csv,.json,.tar,.xml,.bin"

# Conditional OpenAPI { #conditional-openapi }

If you needed to, you could use settings and environment variables to configure OpenAPI conditionally depending on the environment, and even disable it entirely.

## About security, APIs, and docs { #about-security-apis-and-docs }

Hiding your documentation user interfaces in production *shouldn't* be the way to protect your API.

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   * @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

import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicLong;

/**
 * One or more variables that together maintain an initially zero {@code long} sum. When updates
 * (method {@link #add}) are contended across threads, the set of variables may grow dynamically to
 * reduce contention. Method {@link #sum} (or, equivalently, {@link #longValue}) returns the current
 * total combined across the variables maintaining the sum.
 *