Each instance of the `SessionLocal` class will be a database session. The class itself is not a database session yet.

But once we create an instance of the `SessionLocal` class, this instance will be the actual database session.

We name it `SessionLocal` to distinguish it from the `Session` we are importing from SQLAlchemy.

We will use `Session` (the one imported from SQLAlchemy) later.

    If not provided, it's `None` by default, here we provide `"World"` as the default value to use.

Then you could call that Python program:

<div class="termy">

```console
// Here we don't set the env var yet
$ python main.py

// As we didn't set the env var, we get the default value

Hello World from Python

// But if we create an environment variable first
$ export MY_NAME="Wade Wilson"

In our code example above, we don't use it directly, but we pass it to FastAPI for it to use it.

The `lifespan` parameter of the `FastAPI` app takes an **async context manager**, so we can pass our new `lifespan` async context manager to it.

```Python hl_lines="22"
{!../../../docs_src/events/tutorial003.py!}
```

    ```Python hl_lines="11"
    {!> ../../../docs_src/dependencies/tutorial001.py!}
    ```

But then we get a `dict` in the parameter `commons` of the *path operation function*.

And we know that editors can't provide a lot of support (like completion) for `dict`s, because they can't know their keys and value types.

We can do better...

## What makes a dependency

Up to now you have seen dependencies declared as functions.

app = FastAPI()


class InternalError(Exception):
    pass


def get_username():
    try:
        yield "Rick"
    except InternalError:
        print("Oops, we didn't raise again, Britney 😱")


@app.get("/items/{item_id}")
def get_item(item_id: str, username: Annotated[str, Depends(get_username)]):
    if item_id == "portal-gun":
        raise InternalError(

<div style="text-align: right; margin-right: 10%;">Kabir Khan - <strong>Microsoft</strong> <a href="https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/26" target="_blank"><small>(ref)</small></a></div>

---

"_We adopted the **FastAPI** library to spawn a **REST** server that can be queried to obtain **predictions**. [for Ludwig]_"

            ] = fastapi_specific_annotations[-1]
        else:
            fastapi_annotation = None
        if isinstance(fastapi_annotation, FieldInfo):
            # Copy `field_info` because we mutate `field_info.default` below.
            field_info = copy_field_info(
                field_info=fastapi_annotation, annotation=use_annotation
            )

<div style="text-align: right; margin-right: 10%;">Kabir Khan - <strong>Microsoft</strong> <a href="https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/26" target="_blank"><small>(ref)</small></a></div>

---

"_We adopted the **FastAPI** library to spawn a **REST** server that can be queried to obtain **predictions**. [for Ludwig]_"

---

<div style="text-align: left; direction: ltr;">"We adopted the <strong>FastAPI</strong> library to spawn a <strong>REST</strong>server that can be queried to obtain <strong>predictions</strong>. [for Ludwig]"</div>

    ```Python hl_lines="13-14"
    {!> ../../../docs_src/dependencies/tutorial008c.py!}
    ```

In this case, the client will see an *HTTP 500 Internal Server Error* response as it should, given that we are not raising an `HTTPException` or similar, but the server will **not have any logs** or any other indication of what was the error. 😱

### Always `raise` in Dependencies with `yield` and `except`