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From the Python Official Documentation:

9.7. Odds and Ends

Sometimes it is useful to have a data type similar to the Pascal "record" or C "struct", bundling together a few named data items. An empty class definition will do nicely:

class Employee:
 pass
john = Employee() # Create an empty employee record
# Fill the fields of the record 
john.name = 'John Doe' 
john.dept = 'computer lab' 
john.salary = 1000

This seems natural and simple: Pythonic. Remember the Zen! "Simple is better than complex" (number 3) and "If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea" (number 11)

In addition, a struct is nothing but a class with public members (i.e., struct{}; and class{public:}; are the exact same thing (in, say, C++)). Shouldn't you consider this and avoid artificial constructs in your Python program? Python is supposed to be readable, maintainable, and easy to understand.