Parsing SRT data with leading whitespace

Hi,

Platform: Windows 7 64-bit Python version: 3.7.3 64-bit Library version: 1.11.0

I am trying to parse this file (./demo.srt) with the following code:

import srt

with open(r"demo.srt") as fd:
    subs = srt.parse(fd)
    for line in subs:
        print(line)

I receive the following error:

D:\test_srt>d:/test_srt/venv/Scripts/activate.bat

(venv) D:\test_srt>d:/test_srt/venv/Scripts/python.exe d:/test_srt/demo.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "d:/test_srt/demo.py", line 5, in <module>
    for line in subs:
  File "d:\test_srt\venv\lib\site-packages\srt.py", line 341, in parse
    _raise_if_not_contiguous(srt, expected_start, actual_start)
  File "d:\test_srt\venv\lib\site-packages\srt.py", line 377, in _raise_if_not_contiguous
    raise SRTParseError(expected_start, actual_start, unmatched_content)
srt.SRTParseError: Expected contiguous start of match or end of input at char 0, but started at char 2 (unmatched content: '\n\n')

pysrt handles this file without any problems. POEdit is working with it as well. So, I guess, srt is valid.

Would be thankful if you take a look at this and thanks for your work.

[JafarAbbas33]

Yes, you are right. Sorry. By the way for someone having the same problem, they can use something like: with open(fname, encoding='utf-8-sig') as f:

[cdown]

0d7e5fdf8237007910d2392ae98b03041aec2d75 adds support for this. I’ll merge once CI passes.