Querying JSON in Python using Jinja2

jinja_json_test.py

# Experimenting with one easy way to query a JSON document using a text query
# similar to how XPath works for XML docs. 
# Jinja2 has a powerful expression syntax for evalulating/querying a Python dict.
# In this case, we want to query Maven Central to determine if the latest
# version of Robolectric is 3.0 ...

import requests

from jinja2 import Environment

response = requests.get(
    'http://search.maven.org/solrsearch/select?q=g:"org.robolectric"+AND+a:"robolectric"&rows=1&wt=json')
template = Environment().from_string("{{ response.docs[0].latestVersion == '3.0' }}")
result = template.render(response.json())
assert result == 'True'