Allow retrieval of original program string

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/jq.pyx b/jq.pyx
index 6d26470..cad78e5 100644
--- a/jq.pyx
+++ b/jq.pyx
@@ -131,8 +131,12 @@ cdef class _Program(object):
         program_with_input._bytes_input = string_input.encode("utf8")
         return program_with_input
 
+    @property
+    def program_string(self):
+        return self._program_bytes.decode("utf8")
+
     def __repr__(self):
-        return "jq.compile({!r})".format(self._program_bytes.decode("utf8"))
+        return "jq.compile({!r})".format(self.program_string)
 
 
 cdef class _ProgramWithInput(object):