for key, value in project_config.items():
        metadata[key] = value
    # Get custom build config for the current package
    build_config: Dict[str, Any] = (
        config.get("tool", {}).get("pdm", {}).get("build", {})
    )
    # Override PDM build config with custom build config for this package
    for key, value in build_config.items():

---

"_If anyone is looking to build a production Python API, I would highly recommend **FastAPI**. It is **beautifully designed**, **simple to use** and **highly scalable**, it has become a **key component** in our API first development strategy and is driving many automations and services such as our Virtual TAC Engineer._"

* ✨ Add `description` parameter to all the security scheme classes, e.g. `APIKeyQuery(name="key", description="A very cool API key")`. PR [#1757](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/1757) by [@hylkepostma](https://github.com/hylkepostma).

    "id": 4,
    "name": "Mary",
    "joined": "2018-11-30",
}

my_second_user: User = User(**second_user_data)
```

!!! info
    `**second_user_data` means:

    Pass the keys and values of the `second_user_data` dict directly as key-value arguments, equivalent to: `User(id=4, name="Mary", joined="2018-11-30")`

### Editor support

### The callback path expression

    The dependency result will be a string containing the key value.

    ## Example

    ```python
    from fastapi import Depends, FastAPI
    from fastapi.security import APIKeyQuery

    app = FastAPI()

    query_scheme = APIKeyQuery(name="api_key")


    @app.get("/items/")
    async def read_items(api_key: str = Depends(query_scheme)):
        return {"api_key": api_key}
    ```
    """

    def __init__(

---

FastAPI is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python based on standard Python type hints.

The key features are:

* **Fast**: Very high performance, on par with **NodeJS** and **Go** (thanks to Starlette and Pydantic). [One of the fastest Python frameworks available](#performance).

---

FastAPI is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python based on standard Python type hints.

The key features are:

* **Fast**: Very high performance, on par with **NodeJS** and **Go** (thanks to Starlette and Pydantic). [One of the fastest Python frameworks available](#performance).

# Settings and Environment Variables

In many cases your application could need some external settings or configurations, for example secret keys, database credentials, credentials for email services, etc.

Most of these settings are variable (can change), like database URLs. And many could be sensitive, like secrets.

For this reason it's common to provide them in environment variables that are read by the application.

## Environment Variables

!!! tip