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

Ingo Weiss September 21, 2023

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 

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Hauke Bruno Wollentin
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September 22, 2023

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
Ingo Weiss September 22, 2023

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

Hauke Bruno Wollentin
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September 22, 2023

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 

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