JQL for searching users

[Dickson]

Similar to the search_users function in the JIRA package in Python: http://pythonhosted.org//jira/_modules/jira/client.html#JIRA.search_users

How would you replicate the same search via JQL? 

For instance I want to search for all users that have the name "Bob Smith"

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

JQL is for finding issues, not users.

I'm not sure I can add a lot to that statement.  JQL absolutely requires that you phrase the question as "show me issues that match <question>".   Not users.  

If you want to search for users called Bob, then you need to go into the user maanagement and ask that to show you Bob.  Nothing to do with JQL

[Dickson]

Okay, is there a way to search for users via the REST API then? How does the python package manage to do it?

[JamieA]

The answer to that is in the code you posted: https://docs.atlassian.com/jira/REST/latest/#d2e4353