I think `Union[SomeType, None]` is more explicit about what it means.

It's just about the words and names. But those words can affect how you and your teammates think about the code.

As an example, let's take this function:

```Python hl_lines="1  4"
{!../../../docs_src/python_types/tutorial009c.py!}
```

	configCmd := &cobra.Command{
		Use:   "proxy-config",
		Short: "Retrieve information about proxy configuration from Envoy [kube only]",
		Long:  `A group of commands used to retrieve information about proxy configuration from the Envoy config dump`,
		Example: `  # Retrieve information about proxy configuration from an Envoy instance.

* etc.

It can be convenient to quickly access HTTP (and WebSocket) status codes in your app, using autocompletion for the name without having to remember the integer status codes by memory.

Read more about it in the [FastAPI docs about Response Status Code](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/response-status-code/).

## Example

```python
from fastapi import FastAPI, status

app = FastAPI()

name: IDE Experience team notifier
run-name: Notify the IDE Experience team about new RCs for manual testing
on:
  push:
    tags:
      - 'v*.*.*-RC1'

permissions: {}

jobs:
  send-slack-notification:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Send Slack notification about new RCs for manual testing
        id: slack
        uses: slackapi/slack-github-action@v1.23.0
        with:
          payload: |
            {

P = ParamSpec("P")


class BackgroundTasks(StarletteBackgroundTasks):
    """
    A collection of background tasks that will be called after a response has been
    sent to the client.

    Read more about it in the
    [FastAPI docs for Background Tasks](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/background-tasks/).

    ## Example

    ```python
    from fastapi import BackgroundTasks, FastAPI

    app = FastAPI()

    Data from forms is normally encoded using the "media type" `application/x-www-form-urlencoded`.

    But when the form includes files, it is encoded as `multipart/form-data`. You'll read about handling files in the next chapter.

As you saw in the previous chapter about [Deployment Concepts](concepts.md){.internal-link target=_blank}, there are multiple strategies you can use.

Here I'll show you how to use <a href="https://gunicorn.org/" class="external-link" target="_blank">**Gunicorn**</a> with **Uvicorn worker processes**.

!!! info

# ~~Async SQL (Relational) Databases with Encode/Databases~~ (deprecated)

!!! info
    These docs are about to be updated. 🎉

    The current version assumes Pydantic v1.

    The new docs will include Pydantic v2 and will use <a href="https://sqlmodel.tiangolo.com/" class="external-link" target="_blank">SQLModel</a> once it is updated to use Pydantic v2 as well.

!!! warning "Deprecated"

You probably have seen how to declare the `response_model` and `status_code` for a *path operation*.

That defines the metadata about the main response of a *path operation*.

You can also declare additional responses with their models, status codes, etc.

There's a whole chapter here in the documentation about it, you can read it at [Additional Responses in OpenAPI](additional-responses.md){.internal-link target=_blank}.

## OpenAPI Extra

    collected using form data (instead of JSON) and that it should have the specific
    fields `username` and `password`.

    All the initialization parameters are extracted from the request.

    Read more about it in the
    [FastAPI docs for Simple OAuth2 with Password and Bearer](https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/security/simple-oauth2/).

    ## Example

    ```python
    from typing import Annotated