Search parent directories for .env file if one is not in the current working directory

[jbowers85]

My use case is such that my working directory is set to a child folder within my repo (this is due to databricks default settings). When running load_dot_env(), if no .env file is found in the working directory, it would be great if parent directories could be searched for an .env file until one is located.

In my case my working directory is something like: "/Workspace/Repos/foo.bar@company.com/my_repo/project/src", while my .env file is located in "/Workspace/Repos/foo.bar@company.com/my_repo".

Perhaps the logic would just use the first .env file found.

[gaborcsardi]

That is reasonable, but unfortunately it is also a breaking change, so we'd need a way for people to opt-in into the new behavior.

[jbowers85]

That makes sense. I've created a pull request that allows users to opt-in to recursive search.

Pull Request