Is there a data type in Python similar to structs in C++?

Why not? Classes are fine for that.

If you want to save some memory, you might also want to use __slots__ so the objects don't have a __dict__. See http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#slots for details and Usage of __slots__? for some useful information.

For example, a class holding only two values (a and b) could looks like this:

class AB(object):    __slots__ = ('a', 'b')

If you actually want a dict but with obj.item access instead of obj['item'], you could subclass dict and implement __getattr__ and __setattr__ to behave like __getitem__ and __setitem__.

In addition to the dict type, there is a namedtuple type that behaves somewhat like a struct.

MyStruct = namedtuple('MyStruct', ['someName', 'anotherName'])aStruct = MyStruct('aValue', 'anotherValue')print aStruct.someName, aStruct.anotherName

dataclass is now built-in to Python as of Python 3.7!

from dataclasses import dataclass@dataclassclass EZClass:    name: str='default'    qty: int

Test:

classy = EZClass('cars', 3)print(classy)

Output:

EZClass(name='cars', qty=3)

Besides for the automatic initialization and __repr__ methods which it generates, it also automatically creates an __eq__ method to make it simple and intuitive to compare two instances of the class.

See PEP 557.

Backported to Python 3.6 using the dataclasses package.