Cannot retrieve my private key from environment variables

[yarg-eth]

It seems like I have done everything right. I have put in my environment variable name as "PRIVATE_KEY" and the value as "PRIVATE_KEY_Value(i.e) 0x......" When I run deploy.py, it will not print my private key in the terminal. I have imported os. I use private_key = os.environ.get("PRIVATE_KEY") to retrieve the key followed by print(private_key) In return, I get INFO: Could not find files for the given pattern(s). None What the hell is the problem with this. It is driving me crazy, and I have gotten the same answers from Stack Exchange Ethereum and Youtube.

[yarg-eth]

Got it figured out. I had to make a .env file with PRIVATE_KEY=0x...................... in my project to retrieve it.

[cromewar]

Nice Catch!