* If you are comparing Starlette, compare it against Sanic, Flask, Django, etc. Web frameworks (or microframeworks).
* **FastAPI**:
    * The same way that Starlette uses Uvicorn and cannot be faster than it, **FastAPI** uses Starlette, so it cannot be faster than it.

{!../../../docs_src/path_params/tutorial003.py!}
```

Otherwise, the path for `/users/{user_id}` would match also for `/users/me`, "thinking" that it's receiving a parameter `user_id` with a value of `"me"`.

Similarly, you cannot redefine a path operation:

```Python hl_lines="6  11"
{!../../../docs_src/path_params/tutorial003b.py!}
```

The first one will always be used since the path matches first.

## Predefined values

    with pytest.raises(
        AssertionError, match="Path parameters cannot have a default value"
    ):

        @app.get("/items/{item_id}/")
        async def get_item(item_id: Annotated[int, Path(default=1)]):
            pass  # pragma: nocover

    with pytest.raises(
        AssertionError,
        match=(
            "`Query` default value cannot be set in `Annotated` for 'item_id'. Set the"