python-yq mit Homebrew, zypper, Nix, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, scoop installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• tomlq
• xq

Projektgeschichte

The current project's published release series begins at 2.0; the documentation disclaims compatibility with an earlier unrelated yq project.

The 2.x line added XML processing, Homebrew distribution, YAML round-tripping, in-place editing, and TOML processing over time.

Later development added YAML 1.2 behavior, safer XML handling, comment-preserving round trips, YAML frontmatter support, and streaming-oriented processing.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The project was adopted as a way to reuse jq filters for YAML by transcoding YAML to JSON, invoking jq, and optionally converting the result back to YAML.

Its scope expanded into adjacent structured-data formats: `xq` handles XML and `tomlq` handles TOML.

The official changelog records Homebrew availability beginning in the 2.7 line, in-place editing in the 2.10 line, TOML support in the 2.12 line, and later YAML round-trip and streaming improvements.

Wie es verwendet wird

Pipe YAML through `yq <jq-filter>` or pass input filenames as arguments.

Use `-y` for YAML output, `-Y` when YAML tags and styles must survive a round trip, and `--in-place` for file edits.

Use `xq` for XML and `tomlq` for TOML; their format-specific output options support round-trip conversion.

Install jq separately because yq forwards filters and most command-line options to that executable.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

This yq is the Python implementation whose defining feature is delegation to jq, so users retain jq's mature expression language instead of learning a separate query syntax.

The name is package-manager-sensitive because multiple unrelated projects are called yq; the official documentation explicitly says releases before its PyPI 2.0 series belonged to an unrelated project.

Zeitleiste

• The published series for the current project starts at 2.0; earlier identically named releases were unrelated.
• 2018: The 2.7 line documented Homebrew availability and XML/TOML-related work.
• 2019: YAML round-trip preservation and in-place editing arrived in the 2.9 and 2.10 lines.
• 2021: The 2.12 line added the `tomlq` CLI and ended Python 2.7 support.
• 2022: The 3.0 line adopted YAML 1.2 parsing and rendering behavior.

Related projects

• jq is the processing engine behind yq and must be installed before using it.
• The unrelated Go-based yq by Mike Farah solves a similar shell data-processing problem with a standalone binary and its own expression implementation.

Quellen

• https://kislyuk.github.io/yq/
• https://kislyuk.github.io/yq/changelog.html