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## About the String in `list["Hero"]`
In the first Relationship attribute, we declare it with `list["Hero"]`, putting the `Hero` in quotes instead of just normally there:
{* ./docs_src/tutorial/relationship_attributes/define_relationship_attributes/tutorial001_py310.py ln[1:19] hl[9] *}
What's that about? Can't we just write it normally as `list[Hero]`?
By that point, in that line in the code, the Python interpreter **doesn't know of any class `Hero`**, and if we put it just there, it would try to find it unsuccessfully, and then fail. ðŸ˜
But by putting it in quotes, in a string, the interpreter sees it as just a string with the text `"Hero"` inside.
But the editor and other tools can see that **the string is actually a type annotation inside**, and provide all the autocompletion, type checks, etc. 🎉
And of course, **SQLModel** can also understand it in the string correctly. ✨
That is actually part of Python, it's the current official solution to handle it.
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There's a lot of work going on in Python itself to make that simpler and more intuitive, and find ways to make it possible to not wrap the class in a string.
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