Python Jira API authentication works in Jupyter but not in standalone script

Question

Hi all, I have the following code to log into Jira using the Python Jira API:

from jira import JIRA
import os

username = os.environ.get("JIRA_USERNAME")
password = os.environ.get("JIRA_PASSWORD")
server = "..."

jira = JIRA(options={'server': server}, basic_auth=(username, password))

This works fine in a Jupyter Notebook, but results in a 401 in a standalone Python script:

jira.exceptions.JIRAError: JiraError HTTP 401 url

Any idea how to get past this?

Cheers,

Ingo

Hauke Bruno Wollentin_kh2tr0 · Answer

Is your script maybe running in another Python context like another venv, another Python version at all where the Jira SDK isn't installed like the one that's working?

But to be honest, that sounds pretty strange at all :p

Ingo Weiss_izp2wu · Answer

Yeah that was my first thought as well, but I checked and both variables are set correctly

Hauke Bruno Wollentin_kh2tr0 · Answer

Sounds like the environment variables aren't passed to your script. You can try to check this directly like

assert all((username := os.environ.get("JIRA_USERNAME")), (password := os.environ.get("JIRA_PASSWORD"))) is not None