Can I use the API to select an edge or face by length / area? If I want to select all the edges in a mesh which are over 10 units in length, or all faces with area > 10 units, can I do this via the API?

I've looked at bpy.ops.mesh.select_similar() which lets you select features which are similar to the currently-selected feature, so it feels like this should be possible, but I'm not sure how.
Using the bmesh module

This is quite simple with the bmesh module.  Test script selects all faces with area > 10 and all edges with lengths > 10.  Remember these are local coordinates.

import bpy
import bmesh
context = bpy.context
ob = context.object
me = ob.data
bm = bmesh.from_edit_mesh(me)

# select faces with area &gt; 10

for f in bm.faces:
    f.select = f.calc_area() &gt; 10

# edges length &gt; 10

for e in bm.edges:
    e.select = e.calc_length() &gt; 10