From da13c36b5e84c23d634d711a39e6013f7cf1dfbd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan Krawczyk <stefan@dagworks.io>
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 12:01:22 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Adds environment variable to change hamilton config location

This is for flexibility in determining where to look for the
config file.
---
 hamilton/telemetry.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/hamilton/telemetry.py b/hamilton/telemetry.py
index 0a9523900..72e317744 100644
--- a/hamilton/telemetry.py
+++ b/hamilton/telemetry.py
@@ -52,8 +52,8 @@
 EXPERIMENT_SERVER = "os_hamilton_experiment_server"
 TIMEOUT = 2
 MAX_COUNT_SESSION = 100  # max number of events collected per python process
-
-DEFAULT_CONFIG_LOCATION = os.path.expanduser("~/.hamilton.conf")
+DEFAULT_CONFIG_URI = os.environ.get("HAMILTON_CONFIG_URI", "~/.hamilton.conf")
+DEFAULT_CONFIG_LOCATION = os.path.expanduser(DEFAULT_CONFIG_URI)
 
 
 def _load_config(config_location: str) -> configparser.ConfigParser: