One way to work with secrets in Python

.gitignore

credentials.yml

credentials.yml

database:
  username: some-cool-person
  password: yeah-right
  hostname: obscure.domain.com

script.py

import yaml

# load yml file to dictionary
credentials = yaml.load(open('./credentials.yml'))

# access values from dictionary
username = credentials['database']['username']

Usage

• create .yml file containing credentials (yaml uses spaces for indentation, similar to python)
• .gitignore this file
• import the yaml into a python script with yaml.load(open('path/to/file.yml'))
• 🆒