Passing username, password, and token to simple_salesforce from environment variables causes authentication failure

[tylerbrentondavis]

We have encountered a persistent issue where we cannot authenticate using environment variables using simple-salesforce.
We have confirmed that the env variables are coming through using a print statement in our script, and we have confirmed that the values work when hard-coded in the script.

We are working on a linux virtual machine in a virtual environment.

We can literally see the values that we are trying to pass because we have set up print statements to ensure the values are not getting passed incorrectly.

[harkaranbrar7]

Special Characters: Check if there are any special characters within the environment variables that might be causing issues. Escape characters might become problematic if not handled correctly, so ensure that your variables are clean and don't contain unexpected characters.