[Tutor] Looking at a String as a Struct?

[Omer]

Class Person:
    def __init__(str):
        self.Firstname = str[0:4]
        self.Surname = str[5:7]
        (...)

If your string separates the values of each person using tags rather than
fixed lengthes, build it like:

        or:
        self.Firstname = str[0:str.find("Last name:")]
        self.Surname = str[str.find("Last name:")+len("Last
name:"):str.find("date_of_birth")]

And just create a list of these, adding various get methods for easy
information retrieval.

(Here's for wandering whether my way of doing it counts as Pythonic.)
HTH.
Omer.

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Wayne Watson
<sierra_mtnview at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

>  True enough, but that gets messy. I'd have to keep them perhaps as global
> variables or pass then around a lot from function to function as a
> collection.  I see WW posted above you about  dictionaries. Maybe that's the
> way to do it.  I'll look into it.
>
> Kent Johnson wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 6:58 AM, Wayne Watson<sierra_mtnview at sbcglobal.net> <sierra_mtnview at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>
>  Is it possible in Python to look at a string as a "struct". I don't think a
> struct exists in python. Actually, is there something analogous to a record.
> In the case of strings, suppose I have string that is composed of
> sub-strings like, first_name, last-name, date_of birth, which consists of
> month, day, and year, and finally SSN, street_address, state, city, and
> zip_code. I'd like to access these fields directly instead of lastname =
> record[38:55]. What if fields are not just strings, but some numeric values?
>
>
>  For numeric fields, just convert as needed:
> quantity = int(record[55:60])
> price = float(record[60::70])
>
> If the numbers are binary, rather than ascii, see the struct module.
>
> Kent
>
>
>
>
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