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In the standard Python Console or Terminal in PyCharm it is pretty straightforward to set environment variables.

How can you set environment variables for PyCharm's managed Jupyter?

bluesummers
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There is no easy built-in way at the moment, I am afraid. See the corresponding ticket in the JetBrains issue tracker https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/DS-2770 (and vote for it).

The one workaround that comes to mind is to export the desired environment variables in a shell session -> start PyCharm from it -> start the managed server. IDE will inherit the envs from the shell, and the server will inherit them from the IDE.

Pavel Karateev
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  • Quite sad thinking they are working on DataSpell for so long and have not covered this feature in the version that is on PyCharm Pro – bluesummers Jan 10 '22 at 11:25
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You can use a configured Jupyter Server.

  • Open a terminal in PyCharm

  • Export your environment variables in the terminal

    export MY_VARIABLE="its-value"

  • Start a Jupyter Server

    jupyter notebook --no-browser

  • Configure PyCharm to use the server you just started

Note the server URL from the terminal output and then add a server configuration in Languages & Frameworks => Jupyter => Jupyter Servers

Josh Famestad
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More a workaround than a solution, one can use python-dotenv.

Put an .env file with the variables in the directory of the notebook and in the code

from dotenv import load_dotenv
load_dotenv()

More on this in this question.

A typical .gitignore will exclude .env files from a git repo.

The downside is the dependency to python-dotenv (although the import can be try/excepted if not needed in production).

Jérôme
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This feature was added to PyCharm 2023.2 (see this issue and the changelog) but it is restricted to PyCharm Pro.

Jérôme
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