Cannot get multiline strings to work?

[hartror]

According to the documentation TEST="foo\nbar" should produce a multiline environment variable however I cannot get it to work, what am I doing wrong? I have tried every variation I can think of.

.env

TEST1="foo\nbar"
TEST2=foo\nbar
TEST3="foo
bar"
TEST4="foo\\nbar"
TEST5=foo\\nbar
TEST6=foo
bar
TEST7="foo\
bar"
TEST8=foo\
bar

test.py

import os
from os.path import join, dirname
from dotenv import load_dotenv

dotenv_path = join(dirname(__file__), '.env')

load_dotenv(dotenv_path, verbose=True)

tests = (
    (key, value)
    for key, value in os.environ.items()
    if key.startswith('TEST'))

for key, value in tests:
    print(key, value)

output

TEST1 foo\nbar
TEST2 foo\\nbar
TEST3 "foo
TEST4 foo\\nbar
TEST5 foo\\\\nbar
TEST6 foo
TEST7 "foo\\
TEST8 foo\\

Trying with "real" environment variables through bash:

$ export TEST="foo
bar"
$ python -c "import os; print(os.environ['TEST'])"
foo
bar

using
Darwin Kernel Version 15.6.0
Python 3.6.2
python-dotenv==0.7.1

[hartror]

Thanks 😀