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How to read in a key in .bashrc containing "$" from Python?

I am using os.environ['my_key'] to read in a key from my .bashrc. For example, if my_key="123$abc" were in .bashrc then os.environ['my_key'] would return 123bc.

Is there a trick to read in the full key?

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>Solution :

Try to escape $.

my_key="123\$abc"
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