Plurrrr

When programming in Python, I spend a large amount of time using IPython and its powerful interactive prompt, not just for some one-off calculations, but for significant chunks of actual programming and debugging. I use it especially for exploratory programming where I’m unsure of the APIs available to me, or what the state of the system will be at a particular point in the code.

In this post I explore a couple of new (to me) operators in jq's arsenal: JOIN and INDEX, based on an answer to a question that I came across on Stack Overflow.

But how do I select the previous sibling of an element? Something like p:before(hr) which would select all paragraphs that precede an <hr> element.