[Tutor] What to call a string with embedded descriptor?

[Tim Johnson]

This is kind of a theoretical question. I.E. I am looking for a
keyword to do research on.
Consider the following string:

'3:2,6:2,4:3,5:0|age50height63nametimvalue'

If the string above is split on the first occurance of '|',
the result is a 'leftmost' component which can be decomposed into a
nested list of integers which can then be used to parse the
'rightmost' string into a dictionary.

What would be a generic term or a pythonist term for such a string?

Thanks
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Tim 
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