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0.10.3

- Improve interactive mode detection ([@andrewsmith])([#183]).

- Refactor parser to fix parsing inconsistencies ([@bbc2])([#170]).

- Interpret escapes as control characters only in double-quoted strings.

- Interpret `#` as start of comment only if preceded by whitespace.

0.10.2

- Add type hints and expose them to users ([@qnighy])([#172])

- `load_dotenv` and `dotenv_values` now accept an `encoding` parameter, defaults to `None`

([@theskumar])([@earlbread])([#161])

- Fix `str`/`unicode` inconsistency in Python 2: values are always `str` now. ([@bbc2])([#121])

- Fix Unicode error in Python 2, introduced in 0.10.0. ([@bbc2])([#176])

0.10.1

- Fix parsing of variable without a value ([@asyncee])([@bbc2])([#158])

0.10.0

- Add support for UTF-8 in unquoted values ([@bbc2])([#148])

- Add support for trailing comments ([@bbc2])([#148])

- Add backslashes support in values ([@bbc2])([#148])

- Add support for newlines in values ([@bbc2])([#148])

- Force environment variables to str with Python2 on Windows ([@greyli])

- Drop Python 3.3 support ([@greyli])

- Fix stderr/-out/-in redirection ([@venthur])

0.9.0

- Add `--version` parameter to cli ([@venthur])

- Enable loading from current directory ([@cjauvin])

- Add 'dotenv run' command for calling arbitrary shell script with .env ([@venthur])

0.8.1

- Add tests for docs ([@Flimm])

- Make 'cli' support optional. Use `pip install python-dotenv[cli]`. ([@theskumar])

0.8.0

- `set_key` and `unset_key` only modified the affected file instead of

parsing and re-writing file, this causes comments and other file

entact as it is.

- Add support for `export` prefix in the line.

- Internal refractoring ([@theskumar])

- Allow `load_dotenv` and `dotenv_values` to work with `StringIO())` ([@alanjds])([@theskumar])([#78])

0.7.1

- Remove hard dependency on iPython ([@theskumar])

0.7.0

- Add support to override system environment variable via .env.

([@milonimrod](https://github.com/milonimrod))

([\#63](https://github.com/theskumar/python-dotenv/issues/63))

- Disable ".env not found" warning by default

([@maxkoryukov](https://github.com/maxkoryukov))

([\#57](https://github.com/theskumar/python-dotenv/issues/57))

0.6.5

- Add support for special characters `\`.

([@pjona](https://github.com/pjona))

([\#60](https://github.com/theskumar/python-dotenv/issues/60))

0.6.4

- Fix issue with single quotes ([@Flimm])

([\#52](https://github.com/theskumar/python-dotenv/issues/52))

0.6.3

- Handle unicode exception in setup.py

([\#46](https://github.com/theskumar/python-dotenv/issues/46))

0.6.2

- Fix dotenv list command ([@ticosax](https://github.com/ticosax))

- Add iPython Suport

([@tillahoffmann](https://github.com/tillahoffmann))

0.6.0

- Drop support for Python 2.6

- Handle escaped charaters and newlines in quoted values. (Thanks

[@iameugenejo](https://github.com/iameugenejo))

- Remove any spaces around unquoted key/value. (Thanks

[@paulochf](https://github.com/paulochf))

- Added POSIX variable expansion. (Thanks

[@hugochinchilla](https://github.com/hugochinchilla))

0.5.1

- Fix find\_dotenv - it now start search from the file where this

function is called from.

0.5.0

- Add `find_dotenv` method that will try to find a `.env` file.

(Thanks [@isms](https://github.com/isms))

0.4.0

- cli: Added `-q/--quote` option to control the behaviour of quotes

around values in `.env`. (Thanks

[@hugochinchilla](https://github.com/hugochinchilla)).

- Improved test coverage.

[#161]: https://github.com/theskumar/python-dotenv/issues/161

[#78]: https://github.com/theskumar/python-dotenv/issues/78

[#148]: https://github.com/theskumar/python-dotenv/issues/148

[#158]: https://github.com/theskumar/python-dotenv/issues/158

[#172]: https://github.com/theskumar/python-dotenv/issues/172

[#121]: https://github.com/theskumar/python-dotenv/issues/121

[#176]: https://github.com/theskumar/python-dotenv/issues/176

[#170]: https://github.com/theskumar/python-dotenv/issues/170

[#183]: https://github.com/theskumar/python-dotenv/issues/183

[@andrewsmith]: https://github.com/andrewsmith

[@asyncee]: https://github.com/asyncee

[@greyli]: https://github.com/greyli

[@venthur]: https://github.com/venthur

[@Flimm]: https://github.com/Flimm

[@theskumar]: https://github.com/theskumar

[@alanjds]: https://github.com/alanjds

[@cjauvin]: https://github.com/cjauvin

[@bbc2]: https://github.com/bbc2

[@qnighy]: https://github.com/qnighy

[@earlbread]: https://github.com/earlbread