This is just a **quick tutorial / refresher** about Python type hints. It covers only the minimum necessary to use them with **FastAPI**... which is actually very little.

**FastAPI** is all based on these type hints, they give it many advantages and benefits.

But even if you never use **FastAPI**, you would benefit from learning a bit about them.

!!! note

    ```Python hl_lines="1  4"
    {!> ../../../docs_src/python_types/tutorial009b.py!}
    ```

#### Sử dụng `Union` hay `Optional`

If you are using a Python version below 3.10, here's a tip from my very **subjective** point of view:

Nếu bạn đang sử dụng phiên bản Python dưới 3.10, đây là một mẹo từ ý kiến rất "chủ quan" của tôi:

* 🚨 Tránh sử dụng `Optional[SomeType]`