Use NETRC environment variable

Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

Hi,

I'd like to add support to the NETRC environment variable as documented in GNU inetuils v2.6 (https://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/manual/html_node/The-_002enetrc-file.html). Other tools and libraries are already supporting that envvar and I think it would be nice to aligned as well in that regard.

Supporting the envvar should be as simple as changing:

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/7c4361564c3881946a5eca677607b4ffec0a566d/Lib/netrc.py#L70

with

file = os.environ.get("NETRC", None) or os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), ".netrc")

Best regards,
Berthin

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

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Linked PRs

• gh-135802