## Be Nice

First of all, be nice. 😊

You probably are super nice if you were added to the team, but it's worth mentioning it. 🤓

### When Things are Difficult

When things are great, everything is easier, so that doesn't need much instructions. But when things are difficult, here are some guidelines.

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### <a href="https://flask.palletsprojects.com" class="external-link" target="_blank">Flask</a>

Flask is a "microframework", it doesn't include database integrations nor many of the things that come by default in Django.

This simplicity and flexibility allow doing things like using NoSQL databases as the main data storage system.

As it is very simple, it's relatively intuitive to learn, although the documentation gets somewhat technical at some points.

### What is a Program

The word **program** is commonly used to describe many things:

* The **code** that you write, the **Python files**.
* The **file** that can be **executed** by the operating system, for example: `python`, `python.exe` or `uvicorn`.
* A particular program while it is **running** on the operating system, using the CPU, and storing things on memory. This is also called a **process**.

### What is a Process

  /** True if this web socket failed and the listener has been notified. */
  private var failed = false

  /** Total number of pings sent by this web socket. */
  private var sentPingCount = 0

  /** Total number of pings received by this web socket. */
  private var receivedPingCount = 0

  /** Total number of pongs received by this web socket. */
  private var receivedPongCount = 0

Activating a virtual environment also changes a couple of other things, but this is one of the most important things it does.

## Checking a Virtual Environment

When you check if a virtual environment is active, for example with:

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     * parameters, and as it turns out Firefox and Chrome actually do rather different things, and
     * both say in their comments that they're not really sure what the right approach is. We go
     * with Chrome's behavior (which also experimentally seems to match what IE does), but if you
     * actually want to have a good chance of things working, please avoid double-quotes, newlines,
     * percent signs, and the like in your field names.

At the same point, you try to trigger the autocomplete with `Ctrl+Space` and you see:

<img src="/img/python-types/image02.png">

With that, you can scroll, seeing the options, until you find the one that "rings a bell":

<img src="/img/python-types/image03.png">

## More motivation

Check this function, it already has type hints:

{* ../../docs_src/python_types/tutorial003.py hl[1] *}

    assertThat(server.receivedPongCount()).isEqualTo(0)
    closeWebSockets(webSocket, server)
  }

  /**
   * Configure the websocket to send pings every 500 ms. Artificially prevent the server from
   * responding to pings. The client should give up when attempting to send its 2nd ping, at about
   * 1000 ms.
   */
  @Test
  fun unacknowledgedPingFailsConnection() {
    assumeNotWindows()

### Tests

* Help me check that the PR has **tests**.

* Check that the tests **fail** before the PR. 🚨

* Then check that the tests **pass** after the PR. ✅

* Many PRs don't have tests, you can **remind** them to add tests, or you can even **suggest** some tests yourself. That's one of the things that consume most time and you can help a lot with that.

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### Generate a TypeScript Client with Tags

If you generate a client for a FastAPI app using tags, it will normally also separate the client code based on the tags.

This way you will be able to have things ordered and grouped correctly for the client code:

<img src="/img/tutorial/generate-clients/image06.png">

In this case you have:

* `ItemsService`
* `UsersService`

### Client Method Names