Merge pull request #5643 from tarmath/netrc

Respect the NETRC environment variable

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/requests/utils.py b/requests/utils.py
index 1aafd9cb..16d57762 100644
--- a/requests/utils.py
+++ b/requests/utils.py
@@ -169,14 +169,20 @@ def super_len(o):
 def get_netrc_auth(url, raise_errors=False):
     """Returns the Requests tuple auth for a given url from netrc."""
 
+    netrc_file = os.environ.get('NETRC')
+    if netrc_file is not None:
+        netrc_locations = (netrc_file,)
+    else:
+        netrc_locations = ('~/{}'.format(f) for f in NETRC_FILES)
+
     try:
         from netrc import netrc, NetrcParseError
 
         netrc_path = None
 
-        for f in NETRC_FILES:
+        for f in netrc_locations:
             try:
-                loc = os.path.expanduser('~/{}'.format(f))
+                loc = os.path.expanduser(f)
             except KeyError:
                 # os.path.expanduser can fail when $HOME is undefined and
                 # getpwuid fails. See https://bugs.python.org/issue20164 &