How to use .env variables inside .py script files?

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My workflow is the following:

1. One POST request to retrieve Bearer token that lasts for 1 hour
2. Multiple requests that use the token

I have prod.env and test.env, where I have defined hosts, while the endpoints are identical for both environments. For example, this might be a YAML collection:

$HOST/products
$HOST/users

I want to set up logic where:

1. I retrieve a Bearer token that will be used by subsequent requests, and I want in my .py files to somehow use variables defined in .env` files, so I don't define the same thing (hosts) in two places. Is this possible?
2. I also want to retrieve the token once, i.e., I don't want every request to call the API for the token. Documentation is unclear whether setup function is called by every request in the collection.

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