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subverter-0.1.0/PKG-INFO

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+Metadata-Version: 2.5
+Name: subverter
+Version: 0.1.0
+Summary: Subtitle and transcript readers -- SubRip, WebVTT, LRC, CSV, TSV, whisper's JSON -- into one model
+Project-URL: Changelog, https://github.com/veramachine/ffsuite/blob/main/packages/subverter/CHANGELOG.md
+Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/veramachine/ffsuite/tree/main/packages/subverter
+Project-URL: Issues, https://github.com/veramachine/ffsuite/issues
+Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/veramachine/ffsuite
+Author-email: VERA LVX <veralvx@veralvx.com>
+Maintainer-email: VERA LVX <veralvx@veralvx.com>
+License-Expression: MIT OR Apache-2.0
+License-File: LICENSE-APACHE
+License-File: LICENSE-MIT
+Keywords: captions,lrc,srt,subtitles,transcript,vtt,webvtt,whisper,whisperx
+Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
+Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
+Classifier: Natural Language :: English
+Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14
+Classifier: Topic :: Multimedia :: Video
+Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
+Classifier: Topic :: Text Processing
+Classifier: Typing :: Typed
+Requires-Python: >=3.13
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
+
+# subverter
+
+Subtitle and transcript readers into one model: SubRip, WebVTT, LRC, CSV and
+TSV, and whisper-cli's and WhisperX's JSON.
+
+A file read becomes what it holds: its cues, the word timings where the format
+keeps them, notes on what it held that the model does not, and a refusal --
+with its reason -- for what cannot be read.
+
+| Format  | Read as                                                                                    |
+| ------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
+| SubRip  | cues; WhisperX's highlighted cues read back into words                                     |
+| WebVTT  | cues, as SubRip's                                                                          |
+| LRC     | a line's time, its text                                                                    |
+| CSV/TSV | start, end, text (milliseconds), columns by header, as whisper-cli and WhisperX write them |
+| JSON    | whisper-cli's and WhisperX's: chunks and word timings                                      |
+
+## Installing
+
+```sh
+pip install subverter
+```
+
+Python 3.13 or later; the standard library alone.
+
+## Using it
+
+```pycon
+>>> import subverter
+>>> reading = subverter.read("srt", b"1\n00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:02,500\nHello <i>there</i>\n", "talk.srt")
+>>> reading.cues
+(Cue(start=1000, end=2500, text='Hello <i>there</i>', segment=''),)
+>>> subverter.untagged(reading.cues[0].text)
+'Hello there'
+>>> subverter.read("json", b"[1, 2]", "talk.json")
+Traceback (most recent call last):
+  ...
+subverter.Error: not a whisper-cli (.transcription) or WhisperX (.segments) JSON transcript: talk.json
+```
+
+Times are milliseconds. A text that cannot be read is refused:
+`subverter.Error`, its message the reason.
+
+## Licence
+
+Part of [ffsuite](https://github.com/veramachine/ffsuite), beside ffman: its own package.
+Licensed under either of
+[MIT](https://github.com/veramachine/ffsuite/blob/main/packages/subverter/LICENSE-MIT)
+or [Apache-2.0](https://github.com/veramachine/ffsuite/blob/main/packages/subverter/LICENSE-APACHE),
+at your option.

subverter-0.1.0/README.md

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+# subverter
+
+Subtitle and transcript readers into one model: SubRip, WebVTT, LRC, CSV and
+TSV, and whisper-cli's and WhisperX's JSON.
+
+A file read becomes what it holds: its cues, the word timings where the format
+keeps them, notes on what it held that the model does not, and a refusal --
+with its reason -- for what cannot be read.
+
+| Format  | Read as                                                                                    |
+| ------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
+| SubRip  | cues; WhisperX's highlighted cues read back into words                                     |
+| WebVTT  | cues, as SubRip's                                                                          |
+| LRC     | a line's time, its text                                                                    |
+| CSV/TSV | start, end, text (milliseconds), columns by header, as whisper-cli and WhisperX write them |
+| JSON    | whisper-cli's and WhisperX's: chunks and word timings                                      |
+
+## Installing
+
+```sh
+pip install subverter
+```
+
+Python 3.13 or later; the standard library alone.
+
+## Using it
+
+```pycon
+>>> import subverter
+>>> reading = subverter.read("srt", b"1\n00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:02,500\nHello <i>there</i>\n", "talk.srt")
+>>> reading.cues
+(Cue(start=1000, end=2500, text='Hello <i>there</i>', segment=''),)
+>>> subverter.untagged(reading.cues[0].text)
+'Hello there'
+>>> subverter.read("json", b"[1, 2]", "talk.json")
+Traceback (most recent call last):
+  ...
+subverter.Error: not a whisper-cli (.transcription) or WhisperX (.segments) JSON transcript: talk.json
+```
+
+Times are milliseconds. A text that cannot be read is refused:
+`subverter.Error`, its message the reason.
+
+## Licence
+
+Part of [ffsuite](https://github.com/veramachine/ffsuite), beside ffman: its own package.
+Licensed under either of
+[MIT](https://github.com/veramachine/ffsuite/blob/main/packages/subverter/LICENSE-MIT)
+or [Apache-2.0](https://github.com/veramachine/ffsuite/blob/main/packages/subverter/LICENSE-APACHE),
+at your option.

subverter-0.1.0/pyproject.toml

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+[build-system]
+# 1.26.0 brought license-files to PEP 639's final form; 1.26.2 fixed the metadata 1.26.0 wrote
+# for older core-metadata versions (hatchling's changelog)
+requires = ["hatchling>=1.26.2"]
+build-backend = "hatchling.build"
+
+[project]
+name = "subverter"
+version = "0.1.0"
+description = "Subtitle and transcript readers -- SubRip, WebVTT, LRC, CSV, TSV, whisper's JSON -- into one model"
+readme = "README.md"
+# the owner's: MIT or Apache-2.0, the user's choice
+license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
+license-files = ["LICENSE-MIT", "LICENSE-APACHE"]
+requires-python = ">=3.13"
+authors = [{ name = "VERA LVX", email = "veralvx@veralvx.com" }]
+maintainers = [{ name = "VERA LVX", email = "veralvx@veralvx.com" }]
+keywords = [
+    "subtitles",
+    "srt",
+    "webvtt",
+    "vtt",
+    "lrc",
+    "transcript",
+    "whisper",
+    "whisperx",
+    "captions",
+]
+# https://pypi.org/classifiers/ -- no License :: one (PEP 639); OS Independent: nothing
+# platform-bound imported (measured)
+classifiers = [
+    "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
+    "Intended Audience :: Developers",
+    "Natural Language :: English",
+    "Operating System :: OS Independent",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3 :: Only",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14",
+    "Topic :: Multimedia :: Video",
+    "Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules",
+    "Topic :: Text Processing",
+    "Typing :: Typed",
+]
+dependencies = [] # the standard library alone
+
+[project.urls]
+Changelog = "https://github.com/veramachine/ffsuite/blob/main/packages/subverter/CHANGELOG.md"
+Homepage = "https://github.com/veramachine/ffsuite/tree/main/packages/subverter"
+Issues = "https://github.com/veramachine/ffsuite/issues"
+Repository = "https://github.com/veramachine/ffsuite"
+
+[tool.hatch.build.targets.wheel]
+packages = ["src/subverter"]
+
+[tool.pytest.ini_options]
+# its own, for its sdist's tests alone; from the repository's root, the root's governs
+minversion = "9.0"
+testpaths = ["tests"]
+pythonpath = ["tests"]
+addopts = ["--strict-markers", "--strict-config", "-ra", "--import-mode=importlib"]
+xfail_strict = true
+filterwarnings = ["error"]

subverter-0.1.0/src/subverter/__init__.py

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+"""Subtitle and transcript readers into one model: cues, word timings, notes, refusals.
+
+SubRip, WebVTT, LRC, CSV and TSV, and whisper-cli's and WhisperX's JSON (``readers.FORMATS``).
+"""
+
+from subverter._errors import Error
+from subverter.markup import untagged
+from subverter.readers import FORMATS, read
+from subverter.transcript import Chunk, Cue, Reading, Timing, Transcript, Word
+
+__all__ = [
+    "FORMATS",
+    "Chunk",
+    "Cue",
+    "Error",
+    "Reading",
+    "Timing",
+    "Transcript",
+    "Word",
+    "read",
+    "untagged",
+]
+
+Error.__module__ = "subverter"  # tracebacks name the public subverter.Error, not its private module

subverter-0.1.0/src/subverter/_errors.py

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+"""The one way subverter refuses: a subverter.Error, its message the reason."""
+
+from typing import Never
+
+
+class Error(Exception):
+    """subverter's refusal: the input cannot be read as it stands; the message says why."""
+
+
+def refuse(message: str) -> Never:
+    """Refuse with ``message``."""
+    raise Error(message)

subverter-0.1.0/src/subverter/_values.py

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+"""Numbers exactly: the one rounding subverter needs."""
+
+from fractions import Fraction
+
+
+def round_half_up(value: Fraction) -> int:
+    """The nearest integer, halves up: the floor of ``value`` + 1/2, exactly -- (2n + d) // 2d."""
+    return (2 * value.numerator + value.denominator) // (2 * value.denominator)

subverter-0.1.0/src/subverter/markup.py

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+"""A transcript's markup: its tags, which a reader reads its words without."""
+
+import re
+from typing import Final
+
+__all__ = ["untagged"]
+
+_TAG: Final = re.compile(r"<[^>]*>")  # <u>, <i>, <font ...>: SubRip's and WebVTT's
+
+
+def untagged(text: str) -> str:
+    """``text`` without its tags."""
+    return _TAG.sub("", text)

subverter-0.1.0/src/subverter/readers/__init__.py

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+"""The readers: a transcript's format to what it holds -- cues, word timings, notes, refusals."""
+
+import csv
+from typing import Final
+
+from subverter._errors import refuse
+from subverter.readers import lrc, subrip, table, whisper
+from subverter.transcript import Reading
+
+__all__ = ["FORMATS", "read"]
+
+FORMATS: Final = ("srt", "vtt", "lrc", "csv", "tsv", "json")  # the formats a reader reads
+
+
+def read(fmt: str, data: bytes, name: str) -> Reading:
+    """One format's reader, on the transcript's bytes (``name``: its name, in messages)."""
+    if fmt == "txt":
+        use = "use whisper-cli -osrt, -ovtt, -olrc, -ocsv, -oj or -ojf"
+        refuse(f"a .txt transcript has no timestamps; {use}, or WhisperX srt, vtt, tsv or json")
+    if fmt not in FORMATS:
+        refuse(f"unsupported subtitle format '.{fmt}' ({', '.join(FORMATS)})")
+    match fmt:
+        case "srt" | "vtt":
+            cues = subrip.rows(_lines(data))
+            if not subrip.is_highlighted(cues):
+                return Reading(f".{fmt}", has_words=False, cues=tuple(cues))
+            sentences, words = subrip.highlighted(cues)
+            source = f"WhisperX --highlight_words .{fmt}"
+            return Reading(source, has_words=True, cues=tuple(sentences), words=tuple(words))
+        case "lrc":
+            return Reading(".lrc", has_words=False, cues=tuple(lrc.rows(_lines(data))))
+        case "csv" | "tsv":
+            try:
+                cues = table.rows(fmt, _text(data))
+            except csv.Error as error:  # a field past csv's limit (128 KiB): no subtitle's text
+                refuse(f"unreadable .{fmt}: {name}: {error}")
+            return Reading(f".{fmt}", has_words=False, cues=tuple(cues))
+        case _:
+            return whisper.read(data, name)
+
+
+def _text(data: bytes) -> str:
+    """The bytes as UTF-8 (undecodable bytes kept, as the shell kept them), a BOM off."""
+    return data.decode("utf-8", "surrogateescape").removeprefix("\ufeff")
+
+
+def _lines(data: bytes) -> list[str]:
+    """The text's lines, a trailing CR off each (awk sees no record after the last newline)."""
+    lines = [line.removesuffix("\r") for line in _text(data).split("\n")]
+    if lines and lines[-1] == "":
+        _ = lines.pop()
+    return lines

subverter-0.1.0/src/subverter/readers/fields.py

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+"""What a reader makes of a field: a number, exactly, or none; a time, in whole milliseconds.
+
+One grammar, one rounding, every format: a time is read from its decimal text -- never
+through a float -- and rounded half up to the millisecond. Reading is bounded: a text's
+size or exponent cannot make it slow (``exact``).
+"""
+
+import re
+import sys
+from fractions import Fraction
+from typing import Final
+
+from subverter._values import round_half_up
+
+__all__ = ["exact", "json_number", "ms", "number", "prefix", "time_ms"]
+
+# a decimal, as jq's tonumber and awk read one: ASCII digits, a sign, a fraction, an exponent,
+# blanks around (Python's float() also takes "1_000", other scripts' digits, "nan" and "inf")
+_DECIMAL: Final = re.compile(
+    r"\s*([-+]?)(?:([0-9]+)\.?([0-9]*)|\.([0-9]+))(?:[eE]([-+]?[0-9]+))?\s*", re.ASCII
+)
+_PREFIX: Final = re.compile(
+    r"[ \t\n]*[-+]?(?:[0-9]+\.?[0-9]*|\.[0-9]+)(?:[eE][-+]?[0-9]+)?", re.ASCII
+)
+_HIGHEST: Final = 308  # a double's largest power of ten: a first digit above it, no number
+_LOWEST: Final = -400  # under a double's least (5e-324): zero, as a double underflows
+_DIGITS: Final = 400  # significant digits read: more than any rounding of a time here looks at
+_EXPONENT_DIGITS: Final = 6  # an exponent of 10**6 or more is far past either bound
+_LONGEST: Final = Fraction(sys.float_info.max)  # a time past a double's range is none
+
+
+def exact(text: str) -> Fraction | None:
+    """A decimal text's value -- exactly, for every rounding here -- in bounded work; else None.
+
+    A first significant digit past 10**308 is no number; one under 10**-400 is zero (as a
+    double underflows). The first 400 significant digits are read, and nonzero digits past
+    them as one more (a sticky 1): every boundary a time's rounding meets lies far above the
+    400th digit, so the value falls on the same side of each as the text's own.
+    """
+    match = _DECIMAL.fullmatch(text)
+    if match is None:
+        return None
+    sign, whole, fraction, only, exponent = match.groups()
+    integral = whole or ""
+    digits = integral + (fraction if whole is not None else only)
+    significant = digits.lstrip("0")
+    if not significant:
+        return Fraction(0)
+    if exponent and len(exponent.lstrip("+-").lstrip("0")) > _EXPONENT_DIGITS:
+        return Fraction(0) if exponent.startswith("-") else None
+    top = len(integral) - (len(digits) - len(significant)) - 1 + int(exponent or 0)
+    if top > _HIGHEST:
+        return None
+    if top < _LOWEST:
+        return Fraction(0)
+    kept = significant[:_DIGITS]
+    if significant[_DIGITS:].strip("0"):
+        kept += "1"  # sticky: the rest is nonzero, below every boundary a rounding meets
+    value = int(kept) * Fraction(10) ** (top - len(kept) + 1)
+    return -value if sign == "-" else value
+
+
+def number(value: object) -> Fraction | None:
+    """A JSON number (its fraction read exactly, ``exact``) or a decimal string; else None."""
+    if isinstance(value, bool):  # a JSON true is no number (Python's bool is an int)
+        return None
+    if isinstance(value, int | Fraction):
+        return Fraction(value)
+    if isinstance(value, str):
+        return exact(value)
+    return None  # a float: JSON's NaN, Infinity, or a number past a double -- no number
+
+
+def json_number(text: str) -> Fraction | float:
+    """``json.loads``'s ``parse_float``: the number exactly; past a double, the float JSON gave."""
+    found = exact(text)
+    return found if found is not None else float(text)
+
+
+def prefix(text: str) -> Fraction | None:
+    """A field's leading number, as awk reads it (``$1 + 0``), exactly; 0 if none, None if huge."""
+    match = _PREFIX.match(text)
+    return exact(match[0]) if match else Fraction(0)
+
+
+def ms(value: Fraction | None, per_unit: int) -> int | None:
+    """``value`` (of ``per_unit`` ms each) in whole ms, rounded half up; past a double, none."""
+    if value is None:
+        return None
+    scaled = value * per_unit
+    return round_half_up(scaled) if abs(scaled) <= _LONGEST else None
+
+
+def time_ms(value: object, per_unit: int) -> int | None:
+    """A field read as a time (``number``), in whole ms (``ms``); None if it is none."""
+    return ms(number(value), per_unit)