from pydantic import SecretStr from pydantic_settings import BaseSettings, SettingsConfigDict class Settings(BaseSettings): """ Application settings loaded from environment variables or a .env file. """ bot_token: SecretStr # Tell Pydantic to read from a .env file if it exists, ignoring extra fields model_config = SettingsConfigDict( env_file=".env", env_file_encoding="utf-8", extra="ignore", ) # Instantiate the settings so they can be imported elsewhere settings = Settings()