Explain Python type hints and their importance in FastAPI
WHAT IT TESTS: If you know FastAPI uses type hints for validation and docs. ANSWER OUTLINE: Define hints as declarations; explain FastAPI uses them with Pydantic to validate requests and OpenAPI docs. RED FLAG: Seeing hints as IDE-only.
WHAT IT TESTS: If you understand Python type hints as optional metadata that FastAPI leverages as core framework contracts. ANSWER OUTLINE: Define hints as syntax declaring expected parameter and return types without runtime enforcement; explain FastAPI introspects them to drive Pydantic validation, JSON serialization, OpenAPI docs, and editor autocompletion. RED FLAG: Claiming hints enforce types at runtime or are only for IDE autocomplete, missing their role in FastAPI request parsing and response modeling.
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