Returning Environmental Variables - django

Question

I am working on Corey Schafer's blog tutorial and now setting up 'password reset email' using my gmail account as an email client. I want to store my email and password in an environmental variable but when I verify that the information was properly stored it returns none
In the terminal I used (nano .bash_profie)
export EMAIL_USER='email#gmail.com'
export EMAIL_PASS='password'
Then I verified
import os
user = os.environ.get('EMAIL_USER')
password = os.environ.get('EMAIL_PASS')
print(user)
print(password)
Other commenters on the tutorial suggested...
-restart editor and terminal
-Use .zshrc instead of .bash_profile
I have tried these other recommendations but still it returns none. I am still new to programming so any suggestion is appreciated.

Answer 1

without '
export EMAIL_USER=email#gmail.com
export EMAIL_PASS=password

Answer 2

Set env variables like:
os.environ['EMAIL_USER']
os.environ['EMAIL_PASSWORD']
and then use with:
os.environ.get('EMAIL_USER')
Then could you try sourcing your .bash_profie and then run your python file, you must run both commands within the same shell.
source .bash_profie
python yourpythonfile

Answer 3

If you are using ubuntu, try nano .bashrc instead of nano .bash_profile then follow other instructions as you described.