Thanks guys. Those comments are really helpful. The odd semi-colon is my PHP background. Will probably be a hard habbit to break, that one! ;) If I do accidentally drop a semi-colon at the end of the line, will that cause any weird errors?
Also, Chris, can you explain this:
a, b = line.split(': ')[:2]
I understand the first section, but I've not seen [:2] before.
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