.env file is required for executing a .py script properly but is not found on my AWS Ec2 instance

Question

I have uploaded the .env file to the AWS EC2 instance but due to the reason that under Linux every file that starts with a dot is made invisible it is not listed when I use ls. The main problem is that my .py script uses variables from the .env but can't seem to "find" it as long as it is invisible. I tried renaming the .env file but then I am not sure how to code it so that my .py script is not looking for ".env" but "test.env".

Answer 1

I found the solution.

you can target another .env file by using load_dotenv('test.env')