Select support

[mslinn]

The Bash version of jq has a select option, which is accessed via a pipe. Is there a way to do something similar with jq.py, for example:

jq.compile(f'.[] | select({expression} == {value})').input(my_json_data).text()

[mwilliamson]

What happens when you trying doing so at the moment with jq.py?

[mslinn]

This did what I wanted it to:

jq.compile(f'.[] | select({expression} == {value})').input(text=dumpdata).all()

Seems jq.py delegates a lot of behavior to the underlying jq executable. Is that documented?

[mwilliamson]

The top of the README says:

This project contains Python bindings for jq.

which is intended to convey that these are bindings, rather than (for instance) a reimplementation/port.

[mslinn]

Might want to call that out more explicitly, and point to the jq docs.