Parsing srt subtitles

Question

I want to parse srt subtitles:

    1
    00:00:12,815 --> 00:00:14,509
    Chlapi, jak to jde s
    těma pracovníma světlama?.

    2
    00:00:14,815 -->          


        

Answer 1

splits = [s.strip() for s in re.split(r'\n\s*\n', text) if s.strip()]
regex = re.compile(r'''(?P\d+).*?(?P\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2},\d{3}) --> (?P\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2},\d{3})\s*.*?\s*(?P.*)''', re.DOTALL)
for s in splits:
    r = regex.search(s)
    print r.groups()