{
            "url": "/api/v1"
        },
        {
            "url": "https://stag.example.com",
            "description": "Staging environment"
        },
        {
            "url": "https://prod.example.com",
            "description": "Production environment"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
            // More stuff here
    }
}
```

!!! tip

I'll tell you a bit more about these **concepts** here, and that would hopefully give you the **intuition** you would need to decide how to deploy your API in very different environments, possibly even in **future** ones that don't exist yet.

By considering these concepts, you will be able to **evaluate and design** the best way to deploy **your own APIs**.

### Virtual environment with `venv`

You can create an isolated virtual local environment in a directory using Python's `venv` module. Let's do this in the cloned repository (where the `requirements.txt` is):

<div class="termy">

```console

An <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment_variable" class="external-link" target="_blank">environment variable</a> (also known as "env var") is a variable that lives outside of the Python code, in the operating system, and could be read by your Python code (or by other programs as well).

# Conditional OpenAPI

If you needed to, you could use settings and environment variables to configure OpenAPI conditionally depending on the environment, and even disable it entirely.

## About security, APIs, and docs

Hiding your documentation user interfaces in production *shouldn't* be the way to protect your API.

That doesn't add any extra security to your API, the *path operations* will still be available where they are.

                ),
                "description": "Staging environment",
            },
            {
                "url": IsOneOf(
                    "https://prod.example.com/",
                    # TODO: remove when deprecating Pydantic v1
                    "https://prod.example.com",
                ),
                "description": "Production environment",
            },
        ],
        "paths": {

$ python main.py

// As we didn't set the env var, we get the default value

Hello World from Python

// But if we create an environment variable first
$ export MY_NAME="Wade Wilson"

// And then call the program again
$ python main.py

// Now it can read the environment variable

Hello Wade Wilson from Python
```

</div>

    "Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries",
    "Topic :: Software Development",
    "Typing :: Typed",
    "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
    "Environment :: Web Environment",
    "Framework :: AsyncIO",
    "Framework :: FastAPI",
    "Framework :: Pydantic",
    "Framework :: Pydantic :: 1",
    "Intended Audience :: Developers",
    "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",

        {
            "url": "/api/v1"
        },
        {
            "url": "https://stag.example.com",
            "description": "Staging environment"
        },
        {
            "url": "https://prod.example.com",
            "description": "Production environment"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
            // Hier mehr Einstellungen
    }
}
```

!!! tip "Tipp"

    * You can read more about it in the docs for [Settings and Environment Variables](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/advanced/settings/).