**FastAPI** is all based on these type hints, they give it many advantages and benefits.

But even if you never use **FastAPI**, you would benefit from learning a bit about them.

/// note

If you are a Python expert, and you already know everything about type hints, skip to the next chapter.

///

			// For tiered objects, read quorum is N/2+1 to ensure simple majority on xl.meta.
			// It is not equal to EcM because the data integrity is entrusted with the warm tier.
			// However, we never go below EcM, in case of a EcM=EcN setup.
			parities[index] = max(totalShards-(totalShards/2+1), metadata.Erasure.ParityBlocks)
		} else {
			parities[index] = metadata.Erasure.ParityBlocks
		}
	}
	return
}

 *
 * Every [edit] call must be matched by a call to [Editor.commit] or [Editor.abort]. Committing is
 * atomic: a read observes the full set of values as they were before or after the commit, but never
 * a mix of values.
 *
 * Clients call [get] to read a snapshot of an entry. The read will observe the value at the time
 * that [get] was called. Updates and removals after the call do not impact ongoing reads.
 *

    /** Gets the weak value reference held by entry. */
    WeakValueReference<K, V, E> getValueReference();
  }

  @SuppressWarnings("unchecked") // impl never uses a parameter or returns any non-null value
  static <K, V, E extends InternalEntry<K, V, E>>
      WeakValueReference<K, V, E> unsetWeakValueReference() {
    return (WeakValueReference<K, V, E>) UNSET_WEAK_VALUE_REFERENCE;

          return invokeGeneratorMethod(emptyGenerate);
        } else {
          // Cannot use empty generator. Proceed with other generators.
        }
      } else {
        // never generated empty instance for this type before.
        Object emptyInstance = invokeGeneratorMethod(emptyGenerate);
        emptyInstanceGenerated.put(type.getType(), freshness.get());
        return emptyInstance;
      }

		// - this change attempts to avoid stale information if the underlying
		// transport is already down.
		return "", errDiskNotFound
	}

	// This call should never be over the network, this is always
	// a cached value - caller should make sure to use this
	// function on a fresh disk or make sure to look at the error
	// from a different networked call to validate the GetDiskID()

        return new NodeIterator(index);
      }
    }
    return new EntriesImpl();
  }

  @Override
  Iterator<Entry<K, V>> entryIterator() {
    throw new AssertionError("should never be called");
  }

  @Override
  Map<K, Collection<V>> createAsMap() {
    return new Multimaps.AsMap<>(this);
  }

  /**

    writeMedium(frame, 8 + expectedData.size)
    frame.writeByte(TYPE_GOAWAY)
    frame.writeByte(FLAG_NONE)
    frame.writeInt(0) // connection-scope
    frame.writeInt(0) // never read any stream!
    frame.writeInt(expectedError.httpCode)
    frame.write(expectedData.toByteArray())

    // Check writer sends the same bytes.

      new Predicate<@Nullable Integer>() {
        @Override
        public boolean apply(@Nullable Integer i) {
          throw new AssertionFailedError("This predicate should never have been evaluated");
        }
      };

  /** Instantiable predicate with reasonable hashCode() and equals() methods. */
  static class IsOdd implements Predicate<@Nullable Integer>, Serializable {

            log.trace("Have DC referral " + dr);
        }

        if (dr != null && domain.equals(dr.getServer()) && root.equals(dr.getShare())) {
            // If we do cache these we never get to the properly cached
            // standalone referral we might have.
            log.warn("Dropping self-referential referral " + dr);
            dr = null;
        }
        return dr;
    }