## About security, APIs, and docs

Hiding your documentation user interfaces in production *shouldn't* be the way to protect your API.

That doesn't add any extra security to your API, the *path operations* will still be available where they are.

If there's a security flaw in your code, it will still exist.

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## Upgrade `pip`

/// tip

If you use <a href="https://github.com/astral-sh/uv" class="external-link" target="_blank">`uv`</a> you would use it to install things instead of `pip`, so you don't need to upgrade `pip`. 😎

///

If you are using `pip` to install packages (it comes by default with Python), you should **upgrade** it to the latest version.

    override fun execute(context: ComponentMetadataContext) {
        context.details.allVariants {
            withDependencies {
                filter { it.group == "xml-apis" }.forEach {
                    it.version { require("1.4.01") }
                    it.because("Gradle has trouble with the versioning scheme and pom redirects in higher versions")
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

You can return it directly.

It accepts the following parameters:

* `content` - A `str` or `bytes`.
* `status_code` - An `int` HTTP status code.
* `headers` - A `dict` of strings.
* `media_type` - A `str` giving the media type. E.g. `"text/html"`.

        val originalChanges = loadChanges()
        val sortedChanges = originalChanges.mapValues {
            sortChanges(it.value)
        }

        val mismatches = originalChanges.mapValues {
            findMismatches(it.value, sortedChanges[it.key]!!)
        }.filterValues {
            it.isNotEmpty()
        }

        if (mismatches.isNotEmpty()) {

```Python hl_lines="10"
{!> ../../docs_src/path_params_numeric_validations/tutorial001.py!}
```

////

/// note

A path parameter is always required as it has to be part of the path. Even if you declared it with `None` or set a default value, it would not affect anything, it would still be always required.

///

## Order the parameters as you need

/// tip

* **FastAPI**:
    * The same way that Starlette uses Uvicorn and cannot be faster than it, **FastAPI** uses Starlette, so it cannot be faster than it.

/// tip

This is a toy example to demonstrate how it works, if you need Gzip support, you can use the provided [`GzipMiddleware`](../advanced/middleware.md#gzipmiddleware){.internal-link target=_blank}.

///

First, we create a `GzipRequest` class, which will overwrite the `Request.body()` method to decompress the body in the presence of an appropriate header.

If there's no `gzip` in the header, it will not try to decompress the body.

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type ComplexType complex64

// The append built-in function appends elements to the end of a slice. If
// it has sufficient capacity, the destination is resliced to accommodate the
// new elements. If it does not, a new underlying array will be allocated.
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