.env not loaded automatically

[jonathanlastmileai]

I don't know if this is expected behavior, but I have to call load_dotenv() otherwise I get this:

result.result.UnwrapError: Called Result.unwrap()on anErr value: "Missing API key 'OPENAI_API_KEY' in environment"

Repro:

Follow the pydata demo steps.

• Put .env in working directory
• run this

from aiconfig import AIConfigRuntime, InferenceOptions
import asyncio

config = AIConfigRuntime.load("pydata.aiconfig.yaml")

inference_options = InferenceOptions(stream=True)

async def main():
  query_question = input()
  print("thinking...")
  await config.run("sql-generator", params = {"function" : query_question}, options=inference_options)
  print("done")

if __name__=="__main__":
  asyncio.run(main())

cc @saqadri , @Ankush-lastmile , @rossdanlm

[rossdanlm]

Yea this is expected behaviour. load_dotenv moves key-value pairs from .env files --> os value, so you can also do .zshrc file if you want to permanently add it there forever. We just need to ensure that the api keys are uploaded to the os environment

[jonathanlastmileai]

OK, just need to point out that at least some of our demos don't have the loading code, e.g. pydata. cc @andrew-lastmile