* Allow having empty paths in *path operations* used with `include_router` and a `prefix`.
    * This allows having a router for `/cats` and all its *path operations*, while having one of them for `/cats`.
    * Now it doesn't have to be only `/cats/` (with a trailing slash).

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    return get_model_fields(model)  # type: ignore[return-value]


# Duplicate of several schema functions from Pydantic v1 to make them compatible with
# Pydantic v2 and allow mixing the models

TypeModelOrEnum = Union[type["BaseModel"], type[Enum]]
TypeModelSet = set[TypeModelOrEnum]


def normalize_name(name: str) -> str:
    return re.sub(r"[^a-zA-Z0-9.\-_]", "_", name)

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