More of a question (not an issue). Raising here, since there's no Discussion section.

[jay-ramani]

How do I delete one of the "Dialogue" events? If I try

for event in doc.events:
    if event.TYPE == "Dialogue":
        for line in ("Remove 1", "Remove 2", "Remove 3"):
            if line in event.text:
                event.del()

I get a "SyntaxError: invalid syntax".

I'm using Python version 3.14.0 on an X86-64 system.

Thanks for the attention. Cheers.

[FichteFoll]

del is a keyword in Python and must be used differently. Since doc.events is a sequence you can generally delete items by index, i.e. del doc.events[i]. I did not verify whether this works, but if you don't have the index you could also use doc.events.remove(event), which should be an alias to del doc.events[doc.events.index(event)].

Note that deleting items of a sequence while iterating over it may produce unexpected results, so what you might want do to is to collect the event line indices you want to delete and then perform deletion in reversed order so that the indices aren't shuffled around after each delete.

indices_to_delete = []
for i, event in enumerate(doc.events):
    if event.TYPE == "Dialogue":
        for line in ("Remove 1", "Remove 2", "Remove 3"):
            if line in event.text:
                indices_to_delete.append(i)

for i in reversed(indices_to_delete):
    del doc.events[i]

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Regarding discussions: They were actually enabled but turns out I needed to create a single discussion first in order to complete onboarding. I have done that now and moved your issue here.

[jay-ramani]

That was very helpful. I followed your advice, and got it working like a charm!

Thank you very much, @FichteFoll.

Marking this as the answer.

Btw, which library would you recommend for parsing SRTs? I zeroed in on a couple, but you might know better.

• https://github.com/cdown/srt
• https://github.com/switchupcb/srt3

[FichteFoll]

I don't think I've ever dealt with SRT in a matter that went beyond simple regex parsing or generating segments by string formatting, so I can't recommend anything personally.

[jay-ramani]

Thanks for the confirmation. I managed to get the library at https://github.com/cdown/srt working.

Cheers.