```Python hl_lines="1  4"
{!> ../../docs_src/python_types/tutorial008b.py!}
```

////

In both cases this means that `item` could be an `int` or a `str`.

#### Possibly `None`

You can declare that a value could have a type, like `str`, but that it could also be `None`.

In Python 3.6 and above (including Python 3.10) you can declare it by importing and using `Optional` from the `typing` module.

 * @since 12.0
 */
@ElementTypesAreNonnullByDefault
/*
 * A nullable bound would let users create a TypeParameter instance for a parameter with a nullable
 * bound. However, it would also let them create `new TypeParameter<@Nullable T>() {}`, which
 * wouldn't behave as users might expect. Additionally, it's not clear how the TypeToken API could
 * support even a "normal" `TypeParameter<T>` when `<T>` has a nullable bound. (See the discussion

 * the beginning, thanks to using different `-source -target` values for compiling our `-jre` and
 * `-android` "flavors.")
 *
 * (We could consider releasing a listenablefuture:1.0.1 someday. But we would want to look into how
 * that affects users, especially users of the Android Gradle Plugin, since the plugin developers
 * put in a special hack for us: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/131431257)
 */

   * worker runs and exhausts the queue, another thread enqueues a task and fails to schedule the
   * worker, and then the first thread's call to delegate.execute() returns. Without this counter,
   * it would observe the QUEUING state and set it to QUEUED, and the worker would never be
   * scheduled again for future submissions.
   */
  @GuardedBy("queue")
  private long workerRunCount = 0;

  @RetainedWith private final QueueWorker worker = new QueueWorker();

   * worker runs and exhausts the queue, another thread enqueues a task and fails to schedule the
   * worker, and then the first thread's call to delegate.execute() returns. Without this counter,
   * it would observe the QUEUING state and set it to QUEUED, and the worker would never be
   * scheduled again for future submissions.
   */
  @GuardedBy("queue")
  private long workerRunCount = 0;

  @RetainedWith private final QueueWorker worker = new QueueWorker();

	_ "k8s.io/client-go/plugin/pkg/client/auth"

	"istio.io/istio/istioctl/cmd"
	"istio.io/istio/pkg/log"
)

func main() {
	if err := cmd.ConfigAndEnvProcessing(); err != nil {
		fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "Could not initialize: %v\n", err)
		exitCode := cmd.GetExitCode(err)
		os.Exit(exitCode)
	}

	rootCmd := cmd.GetRootCmd(os.Args[1:])

	log.EnableKlogWithCobra()

	if err := rootCmd.Execute(); err != nil {

The **default** value of the **function parameter** is the **actual default** value, that's more intuitive with Python in general. 😌

So, the URL for that file would be something like: `/files/home/johndoe/myfile.txt`.

### OpenAPI support

OpenAPI doesn't support a way to declare a *path parameter* to contain a *path* inside, as that could lead to scenarios that are difficult to test and define.

Nevertheless, you can still do it in **FastAPI**, using one of the internal tools from Starlette.

</blockquote>

## Investigation

By using all the previous alternatives I had the chance to learn from all of them, take ideas, and combine them in the best way I could find for myself and the teams of developers I have worked with.

For example, it was clear that ideally it should be based on standard Python type hints.

Also, the best approach was to use already existing standards.

// ServeHTTP - implements http.Handler interface.
//
// When the `list` query parameter is provided (its value is ignored), the
// server lists all metrics that could be returned for the requested path.
//
// The (repeatable) `buckets` query parameter is a list of bucket names (or it
// could be a comma separated value) to return metrics with a bucket label.
// Bucket metrics will be returned only for the provided buckets. If no buckets