Processing repeatedly structured text file with python

Question

I have a big text file structured in blocks like:

Student = {
        PInfo = {
                ID   = 0001;
            Name.First = \"Joe\";
            Na         


        

Answer 1

it's not json, but similar structured. you should be able to reformat it into json.

1. "=" -> ":"
2. quote all keys with '"'
3. ";" -> ","
4. remove all "," which are followed by a "}"
5. put it in curly braces
6. parse it with json.loads