.env export doesn't work - Declaration or Statement expected

Question

I am having trouble to read my .env variables as "export" doesn't work.

This is the project/video I am basing my code on: https://github.com/PatrickAlphaC/erc20-brownie

In order to deploy the contracts on a testnet I need to save my Project ID and Private Key in a .env file :

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Results in this:

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Did I do anything wrong when installing dotenv? I used: pip install python-dotenv

This might be quite a trivial question! Sorry very knew to vscode and solidity.