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Environment Variables

Most of the environment variables that can be set to affect Bokeh operation are described in the bokeh.settings reference guide. In addition to those, there is a BOKEH_DEV environment variable that may be useful to set for local development.

Setting BOKEH_DEV=true is equivalent to setting all of the following individually:

  • BOKEH_BROWSER=none

  • BOKEH_LOG_LEVEL=debug

  • BOKEH_MINIFIED=false

  • BOKEH_PRETTY=true

  • BOKEH_PY_LOG_LEVEL=debug

  • BOKEH_RESOURCES=absolute-dev

In general this ensure local, unminified BokehJS resources are used, ups the default log levels, and makes generated HTML and JSON more human-readable

Note

When running server and notebook examples, the BOKEH_RESOURCES setting that BOKEH_DEV sets will cause rendering problems.

We recommend manually setting BOKEH_RESOURCES to server for server work, and inline for notebooks (other Resources settings may also work)