h4. Working with POMs during development

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An environment variable (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).

Environment variables could be useful for handling application **settings**, as part of the **installation** of Python, etc.

## Create and Use Env Vars { #create-and-use-env-vars }

* `Field(index=True)` tells SQLModel that it should create a **SQL index** for this column, that would allow faster lookups in the database when reading data filtered by this column.

        return data
    ```

    Note that for OAuth2 the scope `items:read` is a single scope in an opaque string.
    You could have custom internal logic to separate it by colon characters (`:`) or
    similar, and get the two parts `items` and `read`. Many applications do that to
    group and organize permissions, you could do it as well in your application, just
    know that it is application specific, it's not part of the specification.
    """

```Python hl_lines="1"
{!> ../../docs_src/python_types/tutorial008b_py310.py!}
```

This means that `item` could be an `int` or a `str`.

#### Possibly `None` { #possibly-none }

You can declare that a value could have a type, like `str`, but that it could also be `None`.

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```Python hl_lines="1"
{!> ../../docs_src/python_types/tutorial009_py310.py!}
```

    if (finalizableReferenceClass == null) {
      /*
       * FinalizableReference's class loader was reclaimed. While there's a chance that other
       * finalizable references could be enqueued subsequently (at which point the class loader
       * would be resurrected by virtue of us having a strong reference to it), we should pretty
       * much just shut down and make sure we don't keep it alive any longer than necessary.
       */

   *   mutation, which is not an actual risk because we use `synchronized`.
   * - Make `remaining` require a non-null `seq` argument. But this is a bit weird because the
   *   method, while it would avoid the instance field `seq` would still access the instance field
   *   `pos`.
   */

  @Override
  public synchronized int read(CharBuffer target) throws IOException {
    checkNotNull(target);
    checkOpen();

If you use a `requirements.txt` file you could specify the version with:

```txt
fastapi[standard]==0.112.0
```

that would mean that you would use exactly the version `0.112.0`.

Or you could also pin it with:

```txt
fastapi[standard]>=0.112.0,<0.113.0
```

    if (finalizableReferenceClass == null) {
      /*
       * FinalizableReference's class loader was reclaimed. While there's a chance that other
       * finalizable references could be enqueued subsequently (at which point the class loader
       * would be resurrected by virtue of us having a strong reference to it), we should pretty
       * much just shut down and make sure we don't keep it alive any longer than necessary.
       */

Here's an example of how an HTTPS API could look like, step by step, paying attention mainly to the ideas important for developers.

### Domain Name { #domain-name }

It would probably all start by you **acquiring** some **domain name**. Then, you would configure it in a DNS server (possibly your same cloud provider).