" If anyone is looking to build a production Python API, I would highly recommend FastAPI. It is beautifully designed, simple to use and highly scalable, it has become a key component in our …

FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production

FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production

Just standard modern Python. If you need a 2 minute refresher of how to use Python types (even if you don't use FastAPI), check the short tutorial: Python Types.

FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production

In Python 3.6 and above (including Python 3.10) you can use the Union type from typing and put inside the square brackets the possible types to accept. In Python 3.10 there's also a new …

FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production

Again, just with that same Python type declaration, FastAPI gives you automatic, interactive documentation (integrating Swagger UI). Notice that the path parameter is declared to be an …

Your API almost always has to send a response body. But clients don't necessarily need to send request bodies all the time, sometimes they only request a path, maybe with some query …

FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production