Convert a .env file to a json array

env-json-convert.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
import json
import sys

try:
    dotenv = sys.argv[1]
except IndexError as e:
    dotenv = '.env'

with open(dotenv, 'r') as f:
    content = f.readlines()


# removes whitespace chars like '\n' at the end of each line
content = [x.strip().split('=', 1) for x in content if '=' in x]

vars={}
for x in content:
    vars[x[0].strip()] = x[1].strip()

print(json.dumps(dict(vars)))