encoding issue when reading from plash.env

Plash bug (just windows i imagine), when I'm reading from plash.env.  On railway, this would work:

api_key = os.environ.get('api_key')

but receiving various errors: 

I've added strip and now works fine: 

api_key = os.environ.get('api_key', '').strip()

All working on my setup now, just thought you might want to know for other Windows users.  Probably because /r/n are created in windows.