attern can include delimiting markers or punctuation, as long as they are suppressed, thereby leaving the significant key text. The value pattern can include named results, so that the :class:`Dict` results can include named token fields. Example:: text = "shape: SQUARE posn: upper left color: light blue texture: burlap" attr_expr = (label + Suppress(':') + OneOrMore(data_word, stop_on=label).set_parse_action(' '.join)) print(attr_expr[1, ...].parse_string(text).dump()) attr_label = label attr_value = Suppress(':') + OneOrMore(data_word, stop_on=label).set_parse_action(' '.join) # similar to Dict, but simpler call format result = dict_of(attr_label, attr_value).parse_string(text) print(result.dump()) print(result['shape']) print(result.shape) # object attribute access works too print(result.as_dict()) prints:: [['shape', 'SQUARE'], ['posn', 'upper left'], ['color', 'light blue'], ['texture', 'burlap']] - color: 'light blue' - posn: 'upper left' - shape: 'SQUARE' - texture: 'burlap' SQUARE SQUARE {'color': 'light blue', 'shape': 'SQUARE', 'posn': 'upper left', 'texture': 'burlap'} )