Index: Lib/struct.py
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--- Lib/struct.py	(revision 63457)
+++ Lib/struct.py	(working copy)
@@ -1,2 +1,28 @@
+import collections
+import re
 from _struct import *
 from _struct import _clearcache
+
+_fmt_regex = re.compile(r'([a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z_0-9]*)?\((\S+)\)')
+
+class NamedStruct(Struct):
+    def __init__(self, format, name=None):
+        try:
+            attr_names, attr_formats = zip(*(
+                m.groups() for m in _fmt_regex.finditer(format)))
+        except ValueError:
+            raise ValueError('bad NamedStruct format: %r' % format)
+        Struct.__init__(self, ''.join(attr_formats))
+        
+        if name is None:
+            name = self.__class__.__name__
+        self._namedtuple = collections.namedtuple(name, 
+            ' '.join(attr for attr in attr_names if attr))
+    
+    def unpack(self, data):
+        return self._namedtuple(*Struct.unpack(self, data))
+
+__all__ = [
+    'Struct', 'NamedStruct',
+    'calcsize', 'error', 'pack', 'pack_into', 'unpack', 'unpack_from'
+]
Index: Lib/test/test_namedstruct.py
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--- Lib/test/test_namedstruct.py	(revision 0)
+++ Lib/test/test_namedstruct.py	(revision 0)
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+import unittest
+from test import test_support
+
+import struct
+
+class NamedStructTest(unittest.TestCase):
+    
+    def test_constructor(self):
+        ns = struct.NamedStruct
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, ns, '')
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, ns, 'bad-format()')
+        self.assertRaises(struct.error, ns, 'attr(/)')
+        self.assertRaises(ValueError, ns, '_attr(h)')
+    
+    def test_unpack(self):
+        ns1 = struct.NamedStruct('(!) x1(h) y1(h) (2x) x2(h) y2(h)')
+        data = '\x00\x01\x00\x02\x00\x00\x00\x03\x00\x04'
+        nt = ns1.unpack(data)
+        self.assertEqual(nt.x1, 1)
+        self.assertEqual(nt.y1, 2)
+        self.assertEqual(nt.x2, 3)
+        self.assertEqual(nt.y2, 4)
+        self.assertEqual(nt, (1, 2, 3, 4))
+        self.assertRaises(AttributeError, getattr, nt, 'x3')
+        self.assertRaises(struct.error, ns1.unpack, data + '\x00')
+        self.assertRaises(struct.error, ns1.unpack, '')
+    
+    def test_pack(self):
+        ns1 = struct.NamedStruct('(!) x1(h) y1(h) (2x) x2(h) y2(h)')
+        data = '\x00\x01\x00\x02\x00\x00\x00\x03\x00\x04'
+        nt = ns1.unpack(data)
+        self.assertEqual(data, ns1.pack(*nt))
+        self.assertEqual(data, ns1.pack(1, 2, 3, 4))
+        self.assertRaises(struct.error, ns1.pack, 1, 2, 3)
+        self.assertRaises(struct.error, ns1.pack, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
+
+def test_main():
+    test_support.run_unittest(NamedStructTest)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    test_main()