Hi Erik, yes exactly.

But it could also change the semantics when a reader is reviewing the Settings class.

Of course we could add a `RequiredAtRuntime` type to use as the default to work around this, but it could be very unclear to someone new to pydantic.

Samuel

On Fri, 15 Apr 2022, 18:04 Erik De Bonte, <Erik.DeBonte@microsoft.com> wrote:

> ```python

> class Settings(BaseSettings):

> db_password: str

> ```

>

> …

>

> 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