Multiline Input into Python Arrays
This looks like CSV. You are probably better off using the python csv module.

            holding=[]                      # start a temp array
            for var in line.split(','):     # for each value append it to the temp array
                    holding.append(var)
            services.append(holding)        # append the temp array to the services arra


Can be written as

services.append( line.split(',') )


line.split() returns a list already, there is no need to copy the elements into another list.