Shell – Pass env variable to Python Script

I have the shell script where I create a Python file on the fly:

#!/bin/bash

args=("$@")

GIT_PASSWORD=${args[0]}
export $GIT_PASSWORD

python - << EOF

import os

print(os.environ.get("GIT_PASSWORD"))
                                                         
EOF

echo $GIT_PASSWORD

echo "Back to bash"

I want to be able to access the variable GIT_PASSWORD, but unfortunately, I am not able to pass it to the python file.

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong and how I may fix that?

>Solution :

The thing is that you’re not actually setting an env variable, you need to change the export:

export GIT_PASSWORD=$GIT_PASSWORD