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The back ticks to quote the keys are off-putting.. It feels like writing arcane SQL.

I personally would try and align with jsonpath for the convention, richer query-language and expressions.

Please, developers, don't use back ticks. They're not as accessible in other keyboard layouts.

I can use other symbol than back tick. But what symbol fits here better? what symbol would you use?

I'd prefer no quotes, but that would restrict the dictionary to keys without spaces. Maybe square brackets, since anyone using python already types those to access dictionary keys.

Yes, I wanted SQL like syntax and I'm happy it feels like this

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