Formatting line breaks in python strings

I have a string:

f = open("file.txt", r)
 message = f.read()
 
 print message
 >>> "To: email\ntitle: add title here\nDescription: whatever here\n"
 

I can split the string by doing:

f_email, f_title, f_description, blank = message.split('\n')
 

But the problem arises when I have the message like this:

"To: email\ntitle: add title here\nDescription: first line\nSecond line\nthirdline\n"
 

When I split the string it splits the description as well. I have tried:

f_email, f_title, f_description, blank = message.split('\n',4)
 

But that obviously returns ValueError because it is splitting more 4 \n's.

Any suggestions?

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