Task: Allow Null ScriptLines

[ibevers]

Description

I am finding it inconvenient to implement something because I can't initialize a null ScriptLine and iteratively add to it.

Tasks

• Change validation to allow creation of null ScriptLine objects

Freeform Notes

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[fabiocat93]

Hi @ibevers, I'm sorry to hear about the issues with ScriptLine initialization. Could you share more details about the scenario you're working on? I'm trying to understand when you might encounter a script with no text or speaker

[ibevers]

@fabiocat93 I wanted to create a null ScriptLine for forced alignment and then populate it with chunks iteratively. I used dicts and then converted the top level dict to ScriptLine at the end instead

[fabiocat93]

@fabiocat93 I wanted to create a null ScriptLine for forced alignment and then populate it with chunks iteratively. I used dicts and then converted the top level dict to ScriptLine at the end instead

should we close this issue then?

[ibevers]

@fabiocat93 That depends. Is there a strong reason to prevent creation of null ScriptLines?

Disallowing them doesn't align with standard Python object creation behavior, where creating null objects is generally allowed. Using dicts like I did is less clean than starting with a ScriptLine and populating it