title: parsing a string of ascii text into separate variables
body: <p>I have a piece of text that gets handed to me like:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>here is line one\n\nhere is line two\n\nhere is line three</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>What I would like to do is break this string up into three separate variables.
  I'm not quite sure how one would go about accomplishing this in python.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for any help,
  jml</p>