parsing a string of ascii text into separate variables

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Published on 2010-05-11T21:58:37Z Indexed on 2010/05/12 3:34 UTC
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Hi there,

I have a piece of text that gets handed to me like:

here is line one\n\nhere is line two\n\nhere is line three

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.

Thanks for any help, jml

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