From 97d81d78e203493ef67f939442d6da5664ef872b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: JB <jb-apps@outlook.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2025 07:27:04 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] feat: Refactor environment loading to use explicit path and
 find_dotenv for better configuration management

---
 abogen/utils.py | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/abogen/utils.py b/abogen/utils.py
index 94144af..f27add2 100644
--- a/abogen/utils.py
+++ b/abogen/utils.py
@@ -10,9 +10,19 @@ from threading import Thread
 
 from functools import lru_cache
 
-from dotenv import load_dotenv
+from dotenv import load_dotenv, find_dotenv
 
-load_dotenv()
+def _load_environment() -> None:
+    explicit_path = os.environ.get("ABOGEN_ENV_FILE")
+    if explicit_path:
+        load_dotenv(explicit_path, override=False)
+        return
+    dotenv_path = find_dotenv(usecwd=True)
+    if dotenv_path:
+        load_dotenv(dotenv_path, override=False)
+
+
+_load_environment()
 
 warnings.filterwarnings("ignore")