* 'struct-like' list *

[Ernesto]

Thanks for the approach.  I decided to use regular expressions.  I'm
going by the code you posted (below).  I replaced the line re.findall
line with my file handle read( ) like this:

print re.findall(pattern, myFileHandle.read())

This prints out only brackets [].  Is a 're.compile' perhaps necessary
?


Raymond Hettinger wrote:

> # Approach for more loosely formatted inputs
> import re
> pattern = '''(?x)
>     Name:\s+(\w+)\s+
>     Age:\s+(\d+)\s+
>     Birthday:\s+(\d+)\s+
>     SocialSecurity:\s+(\d+)
> '''
> print re.findall(pattern, inputData)