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-Python-dotenv reads key-value pairs from a `.env` file and can set them as environment
+python-dotenv reads key-value pairs from a `.env` file and can set them as environment
 variables. It helps in the development of applications following the
 [12-factor](https://12factor.net/) principles.
 
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ If your application takes its configuration from environment variables, like a 1
 application, launching it in development is not very practical because you have to set
 those environment variables yourself.
 
-To help you with that, you can add Python-dotenv to your application to make it load the
+To help you with that, you can add python-dotenv to your application to make it load the
 configuration from a `.env` file when it is present (e.g. in development) while remaining
 configurable via the environment:
 
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 ### Variable expansion
 
-Python-dotenv can interpolate variables using POSIX variable expansion.
+python-dotenv can interpolate variables using POSIX variable expansion.
 
 With `load_dotenv(override=True)` or `dotenv_values()`, the value of a variable is the
 first of the values defined in the following list: