* If you are feeling too generous, you can try to **create an example** like that yourself, just based on the description of the problem. Just keep in mind that this might take a lot of time and it might be better to ask them to clarify the problem first.

### Suggest solutions

It will be defined in OpenAPI with `anyOf`.

To do that, use the standard Python type hint <a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html#typing.Union" class="external-link" target="_blank">`typing.Union`</a>:

!!! note

	if target.updateStmt != nil {
		// FIXME: log returned error. ignore time being.
		_ = target.updateStmt.Close()
	}

	if target.deleteStmt != nil {
		// FIXME: log returned error. ignore time being.
		_ = target.deleteStmt.Close()
	}

	if target.insertStmt != nil {
		// FIXME: log returned error. ignore time being.
		_ = target.insertStmt.Close()
	}

	if target.db != nil {

To declare those types and the internal types, you can use the standard Python module `typing`. It exists specifically to support these type hints.

#### Newer versions of Python

The syntax using `typing` is **compatible** with all versions, from Python 3.6 to the latest ones, including Python 3.9, Python 3.10, etc.

But Python has a specific way to declare lists with internal types, or "type parameters":

### Import typing's `List`

In Python 3.9 and above you can use the standard `list` to declare these type annotations as we'll see below. 💡

But in Python versions before 3.9 (3.6 and above), you first need to import `List` from standard Python's `typing` module:

```Python hl_lines="1"
{!> ../../../docs_src/body_nested_models/tutorial002.py!}
```

      awaitingPong = true
    }

    if (failedPing != -1) {
      failWebSocket(
        e =
          SocketTimeoutException(
            "sent ping but didn't receive pong within " +
              "${pingIntervalMillis}ms (after ${failedPing - 1} successful ping/pongs)",
          ),
        isWriter = true,
      )
      return
    }

    try {
      writer.writePing(ByteString.EMPTY)

!!! note "Technical Details"
    ASGI is a new "standard" being developed by Django core team members. It is still not a "Python standard" (a PEP), although they are in the process of doing that.

   * the problem impacts just one stream or the entire connection.
   *
   * To differentiate the two cases we ping the server when a stream times out. If the overall
   * connection is fine the ping will receive a pong; otherwise it won't.
   *
   * The deadline to respond to this ping attempts to limit the cost of being wrong. If it is too
   * long, streams created while we await the pong will reuse broken connections and inevitably

from typing import Union

from fastapi import FastAPI, Query
from typing_extensions import Annotated

app = FastAPI()


@app.get("/items/")
async def read_items(
    q: Annotated[Union[str, None], Query(title="Query string", min_length=3)] = None,
):
    results = {"items": [{"item_id": "Foo"}, {"item_id": "Bar"}]}
    if q:
        results.update({"q": q})

from typing import Union

from fastapi import Cookie, Depends, FastAPI
from typing_extensions import Annotated

app = FastAPI()


def query_extractor(q: Union[str, None] = None):
    return q


def query_or_cookie_extractor(
    q: Annotated[str, Depends(query_extractor)],
    last_query: Annotated[Union[str, None], Cookie()] = None,
):
    if not q:
        return last_query
    return q


@app.get("/items/")