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What does Pydantic's support for nested models allow, e.g. an `Order` model containing a list of `LineItem` models?

1. What does Pydantic's support for nested models allow, e.g. an `Order` model containing a list of `LineItem` models?
2. What is the purpose of Pydantic's `alias` feature on a field, e.g. `user_id: int = Field(alias="userId")`?
3. What is a major architectural/performance change introduced in Pydantic v2 compared to v1?
4. What is Pydantic?
5. Why is Pydantic particularly well-suited to validating incoming JSON request bodies in a web API, which is a major reason FastAPI is built around it?
6. How does Pydantic use standard Python type hints, e.g. `age: int`, differently from how type hints are normally used in Python?
7. What is a discriminated union (or "tagged union") pattern in Pydantic, and what problem does it solve?
8. What is the purpose of a Pydantic `model_config` (v2) setting like `frozen=True` on a model?
9. Why might validating configuration and environment variables with Pydantic (via BaseSettings) at application startup be preferable to reading raw environment variables ad hoc throughout the codebase?
10. What is the purpose of `Field(...)` in a Pydantic model, e.g. `age: int = Field(gt=0, description="User age")`?
11. What does Pydantic's "strict mode" change compared to its default lenient/coercive validation behavior?
12. What is the purpose of `Optional[X]` (or `X | None` in modern Python) combined with a default value in a Pydantic field definition?

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