
April 15, 2022
5:04 p.m.
```python class Settings(BaseSettings): db_password: str ```
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But either way, the point is that the field is "required", just that it's not necessarily required as an argument.
I see. So while having a default value for `db_password` would solve the problem from a static type checking perspective, your concern is that it would change the runtime behavior? -Erik