Create a RESTful API with Python 3 and FastAPI

In this article, we'll create a simple RESTful API using Python 3 and FastAPI.

But whats is FastAPI?

FastAPI is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints.

First, lets go to import necessary modules and classes:

pip3 install fastapi uvicorn

Now the imports:

from fastapi import FastAPI, HTTPException
from pydantic import BaseModel
from typing import Optional
from uuid import UUID, uuid4

• FastAPI from the fastapi package to create our …

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