def break_sentences()

in projects/speech2srt/speech2srt.py [0:0]

• 25 lines of code
• 12 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

def break_sentences(args, subs, alternative):
    firstword = True
    charcount = 0
    idx = len(subs) + 1
    content = ""
    start = 0

    for w in alternative.words:
        if firstword:
            # first word in sentence, record start time
            start = w.start_time

        charcount += len(w.word)
        content += " " + w.word.strip()

        if ("." in w.word or "!" in w.word or "?" in w.word or
                charcount > args.max_chars or
                ("," in w.word and not firstword)):
            # break sentence at: . ! ? or line length exceeded
            # also break if , and not first word
            subs.append(srt.Subtitle(index=idx,
                                     start=start,
                                     end=w.end_time,
                                     content=srt.make_legal_content(content)))
            firstword = True
            idx += 1
            content = ""
            charcount = 0
        else:
            firstword = False
    return subs