* 'struct-like' list *

[Schüle Daniel]

> I would like to have an array of "structs."  Each struct has
> 
> struct Person{
>     string Name;
>     int Age;
>     int Birhtday;
>     int SS;
> }


the easiest way would be

class Person:
	pass

john = Person()
david = Person()

john.name = "John Brown"
john.age = 35
etc

think of john as namespace .. with attributes (we call them so) added on 
runtime

better approch would be to make real class with constructor

class Person(object):
	def __init__(self, name, age):
		self.name = name
		self.age = age
	def __str__(self):
		return "person name = %s and age = %i" % (self.name, self.age)

john = Person("john brown", 35)
print john	# this calls __str__


> 
> I want to go through the file, filling up my list of structs.
> 
> My problems are:
> 
> 1.  How to search for the keywords "Name:", "Age:", etc. in the file...
> 2.  How to implement some organized "list of lists" for the data

this depend on the structure of the file
consider this format

New
Name: John
Age: 35
Id: 23242
New
Name: xxx
Age
Id: 43324
OtherInfo: foo
New

here you could read all as string and split it on "New"

here small example
 >>> txt = "fooXbarXfoobar"
 >>> txt.split("X")
['foo', 'bar', 'foobar']
 >>>

in more complicated case I would use regexp but
I doubt this is neccessary in your case

Regards, Daniel