Games from Valve use following data format
"name1"
{
"name2" "value2"
"name3"
{
"name4" "value4"
}
}
Does this format have a name or is it just self made?
Can I parse it in python?
I'm not sure that it has a name, but it seems very straightforward: a node consists of a key and either a value or a set of values that are themselves either plain strings or sets of key-value pairs. It would be trivial to parse recursively, and maps cleanly to a structure of nested python dictionaries.