Hi Peter
>
> Not a mysqldump I've ever seen.

Fair enough - this is entirely possible. It's generated by a third
party to which I only have limited access.

[...]

> First step is to find out what exactly it is.

No, not really, because I already know that I can parse it. I've
written a small python program to do that. So regardless of how it's
generated (and I may not be able to find out any more than I know
already), I have to read it as-is.

Thanks anyway
J^n