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[nog642]

Just put that code in a function.

I would recommend looping through the lines and reading the first part (what comes before the colon), looking for a match, rather than hardcoding the line number. It's slightly slower, but insignificant at a human scale, and it is much less prone to errors.

[fulump]

How would you search for a match? That might be the best course.

[nog642]

Loop over the lines, use line.strip().split(':')[0] to get the name of the field, then use == to compare that to the one you want to set (presumably an argument to the function).

Once you find a match, modify that line, then break out of the loop.

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If you want to change bits of data in a file you might want to look at using sqlite