## Program and Process

We will talk a lot about the running "**process**", so it's useful to have clarity about what it means, and what's the difference with the word "**program**".

### What is a Program

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

* The **code** that you write, the **Python files**.

---

You could also define it as a normal function instead of `async def`:

```Python hl_lines="7"
{!../../../docs_src/first_steps/tutorial003.py!}
```

!!! note
    If you don't know the difference, check the [Async: *"In a hurry?"*](../async.md#in-a-hurry){.internal-link target=_blank}.

### Step 5: return the content

```Python hl_lines="8"
{!../../../docs_src/first_steps/tutorial001.py!}
```

    Check more details in the [Deployment](deployment/index.md){.internal-link target=_blank} section.

## Benchmarks and speed

            """
        ),
    ] = True,
) -> Any:
    """
    Declare a FastAPI Security dependency.

    The only difference with a regular dependency is that it can declare OAuth2
    scopes that will be integrated with OpenAPI and the automatic UI docs (by default
    at `/docs`).

If you can choose a more recent version of Python for your project, you will be able to take advantage of that extra simplicity.

In all the docs there are examples compatible with each version of Python (when there's a difference).

For example "**Python 3.6+**" means it's compatible with Python 3.6 or above (including 3.7, 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, etc). And "**Python 3.9+**" means it's compatible with Python 3.9 or above (including 3.10, etc).

**Concurrency** and **parallelism** both relate to "different things happening more or less at the same time".

But the details between *concurrency* and *parallelism* are quite different.

To see the difference, imagine the following story about burgers:

### Concurrent Burgers

You go with your crush to get fast food, you stand in line while the cashier takes the orders from the people in front of you. 😍

The key updated docs are:

* Python Types Intro:

```Python hl_lines="16-18  21-22  28-32"
{!../../../docs_src/openapi_callbacks/tutorial001.py!}
```

There are 2 main differences from a normal *path operation*:

* It doesn't need to have any actual code, because your app will never call this code. It's only used to document the *external API*. So, the function could just have `pass`.

All the data conversion, validation, documentation, etc. will still work as normally.

That way, we can declare just the differences between the models (with plaintext `password`, with `hashed_password` and without password):

=== "Python 3.10+"

    ```Python hl_lines="7  13-14  17-18  21-22"

### Dependencies with `yield` or middleware

Adding a **middleware** here is similar to what a dependency with `yield` does, with some differences:

* It requires more code and is a bit more complex.
* The middleware has to be an `async` function.