Newbie Question: Giving names to Elements of List/Tuple/Dict

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"Alfredo P. Ricafort" <alpot at mylinuxsite.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.1038570941.14619.python-list at python.org>...
> Hi,
> 
> I'm quite new to Python.  So far I find it to be easy to learn and
> simple to program.  However, one thing that I missed, especially someone
> coming from C language, is 'struct'. It seems that when you define a
> data structure in the form of a List, Tuple, or Dict., there is no way
> to give names to each element. 
> 
> For example:
> 
> In C:
>    struct Customer {
>           char * Name;
>           char * Address;
>           char * TelNo;
>    } Customer[];
>   
>    printf("Customer Name is %s\n",Customer[i].Name); 
>    
> 
> In Python:
>    Customer=[ [Name,Addres,TelNo], [Name,Address,TelNo],.....]
>  
>    print "Customer Name is %" Customer[i][0]
> 

here's one way to do it.

customer1 = { "Name" : None,
              "Address" : None,
              "TelNo" : None }
Customer = [customer1, customer2, ...]
print "Customer name is %s" % Customer[i]["Name"]