"""Environment. ========================== Module to to make it easy to determine environment based on what the system's environment variable is set to (default to 'dev' if none set). """ import os DEV = 'dev' PROD = 'prod' SHADOW = 'shadow' TEST = 'test' QA = 'qa' name = os.environ.get('Environment', DEV) if name not in [DEV, PROD, TEST, SHADOW, QA]: raise Exception( 'Environment value ({env}) is not valid.'.format(env=name))