environment variables for jupyter notebook

[mohit2152sharma]

In vscode settings.json file I can use the following option to define environment variables:

"terminal.integrated.env.osx" : {
    "MY_ENV": "test"
    "MY_ENVTYPE": "qa"
}

Now whenever, I start a new shell in the workspace, the shell loads with the above environment variables, and I can access them typically with os.environ["MY_ENV"] is my python scripts.

But with the same settings.json, if I try to access the environment variables in a jupyter notebook I get None. So my question is, is there a way to define environment variables in vscode's settings.json file, so whenever I start a new notebook, the environment variables are loaded by default.

Currently the workaround I have found is to add the following code snippet in a top code cell.

import os
os.environ["MY_ENV"] = "test"
os.environ["MY_ENVTYPE"] = "qa"

I am hoping there is a better way to do the same.

[IanMatthewHuff]

We actually have a setting that can run some arbitrary code at the start up of a any notebook or interactive window. Give this a try, should be what you need. If you just put that code snippet into the setting.