{* ../../docs_src/dependencies/tutorial011_an_py39.py hl[22] *}

/// tip

All this might seem contrived. And it might not be very clear how is it useful yet.

These examples are intentionally simple, but show how it all works.

In the chapters about security, there are utility functions that are implemented in this same way.

        a full-time Guava team member. [Feedback](https://stackoverflow.com/a/4543114) from our
        users indicates that they really appreciate Guava's high power-to-weight ratio. It's
        important to us to keep Guava as easy to use and understand as we can. That means boiling
        features down to compact but powerful abstractions, and controlling feature bloat carefully.

You can also create an environment variable only for a **specific program invocation**, that is only available to that program, and only for its duration.

To do that, create it right before the program itself, on the same line:

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```console
// Create an env var MY_NAME in line for this program call
$ MY_NAME="Wade Wilson" python main.py

    }

    @Override
    public int compare(@Nullable Object left, @Nullable Object right) {
      if (left == right) {
        return 0;
      } else if (left == null) {
        return -1;
      } else if (right == null) {
        return 1;
      }
      int leftCode = identityHashCode(left);
      int rightCode = identityHashCode(right);
      if (leftCode != rightCode) {
        return leftCode < rightCode ? -1 : 1;

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

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

<img src="/img/tutorial/security/image01.png">

/// check | Authorize button!

You already have a shiny new "Authorize" button.

And your *path operation* has a little lock in the top-right corner that you can click.

///

And if you click it, you have a little authorization form to type a `username` and `password` (and other optional fields):

<img src="/img/tutorial/security/image02.png">

/// note

  }

  /*
   * We override the toArray methods for two reasons:
   *
   * 1. Both superclass toArray methods assume that size() gives a correct answer, while our size()
   * might not (and the answer might change while we're building the array).
   *
   * TODO: cpovirk - Is this an issue anywhere anymore? It looks to have been fixed for Java 8
   * (https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-7121314) and before Lollipop

        logger.debug(indent + artifact + " (not setting artifactScope to: " + ignoredScope + "; local artifactScope "
                + artifact.getScope() + " wins)");

        // TODO better way than static? this might hide messages in a reactor
        if (!ignoredArtifacts.contains(artifact)) {
            logger.warn("\n\tArtifact " + artifact + " retains local artifactScope '" + artifact.getScope()

Now, there are some cases where you might want to have the **same schema for input and output**.

Probably the main use case for this is if you already have some autogenerated client code/SDKs and you don't want to update all the autogenerated client code/SDKs yet, you probably will want to do it at some point, but maybe not right now.

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If you just don't know, use normal `def`.

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**Note**: You can mix `def` and `async def` in your *path operation functions* as much as you need and define each one using the best option for you. FastAPI will do the right thing with them.

Anyway, in any of the cases above, FastAPI will still work asynchronously and be extremely fast.

But by following the steps above, it will be able to do some performance optimizations.