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I'm using environment variables for my database url so it has to be one line for practicality. The env vars are exported inside postactivate virtualenv. The app is using django

As I see in the previous topic I must use these format

mysql://PAWusername:DBpassword@PAWusername.mysql.pythonanywhere-services.com/PAWusername$databasename

but it doesn't work, it gives me this error

django.db.utils.OperationalError: (1044, "Access denied for user 'PAWusername'@'%' to database 'databasename'")

the strange part is, the databasename in the error is not same as in the environment variable, lets say my database is

richard$blog-mezzanine

but in the error it says

django.db.utils.OperationalError: (1044, "Access denied for user 'PAWusername'@'%' to database 'richard-mezzanine'")

the '$blog' is missing

I know this isn't mandatory but this is the way my repo is set-up. Thanks

nevermind my bad, the export value must be a string so the dollar sign is escaped