That's why **FastAPI** is based on Starlette, as it is the fastest framework available (tested by third-party benchmarks).

### <a href="https://falconframework.org/" class="external-link" target="_blank">Falcon</a>

Falcon is another high performance Python framework, it is designed to be minimal, and work as the foundation of other frameworks like Hug.

    `OAuth2PasswordRequestForm` is that `OAuth2PasswordRequestFormStrict` requires the
    client to send the form field `grant_type` with the value `"password"`, which
    is required in the OAuth2 specification (it seems that for no particular reason),
    while for `OAuth2PasswordRequestForm` `grant_type` is optional.

    Read more about it in the

4. The `Author` dataclass is used as the `response_model` parameter.

5. You can use other standard type annotations with dataclasses as the request body.

    In this case, it's a list of `Item` dataclasses.

6. Here we are returning a dictionary that contains `items` which is a list of dataclasses.

    FastAPI is still capable of <abbr title="converting the data to a format that can be transmitted">serializing</abbr> the data to JSON.

def Path(  # noqa: N802
    default: Annotated[
        Any,
        Doc(
            """
            Default value if the parameter field is not set.

            This doesn't affect `Path` parameters as the value is always required.
            The parameter is available only for compatibility.
            """
        ),
    ] = ...,
    *,
    default_factory: Annotated[
        Union[Callable[[], Any], None],

def test_is_bytes_sequence_annotation_union():
    # For coverage
    # TODO: in theory this would allow declaring types that could be lists of bytes
    # to be read from files and other types, but I'm not even sure it's a good idea
    # to support it as a first class "feature"
    assert is_bytes_sequence_annotation(Union[List[str], List[bytes]])


def test_is_uploadfile_sequence_annotation():

The editor, mypy, and other tools won't complain about this because, in typing terms, `UserIn` is a subclass of `BaseUser`, which means it's a *valid* type when what is expected is anything that is a `BaseUser`.

### FastAPI Data Filtering

                request and send the client an error.

                If `auto_error` is set to `False`, when the HTTP Bearer token
                is not available, instead of erroring out, the dependency result will
                be `None`.

                This is useful when you want to have optional authentication.

                It is also useful when you want to have authentication that can be

    This only happens when you install using this included `requirements.txt` instead of running `pip install fastapi` directly.

    That is because inside the `requirements.txt` file, the local version of FastAPI is marked to be installed in "editable" mode, with the `-e` option.

### Format the code

There is a script that you can run that will format and clean all your code:

<div class="termy">

```console
$ bash scripts/format.sh

            assert data == "Session cookie or query token value is: fakesession"
            data = websocket.receive_text()
            assert data == f"Message text was: {message}, for item ID: foo"
            message = "Message two"
            websocket.send_text(message)
            data = websocket.receive_text()
            assert data == "Session cookie or query token value is: fakesession"
            data = websocket.receive_text()

# Generate Clients

As **FastAPI** is based on the OpenAPI specification, you get automatic compatibility with many tools, including the automatic API docs (provided by Swagger UI).

One particular advantage that is not necessarily obvious is that you can **generate clients** (sometimes called <abbr title="Software Development Kits">**SDKs**</abbr> ) for your API, for many different **programming languages**.

## OpenAPI Client Generators