Reading files, splitting on a delimiter and newlines.

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Hello,

I have a situation where I have a file that contains text similar to:

myValue1 = contents of value1
myValue2 = contents of value2 but
                        with a new line here
myValue3 = contents of value3

My first approach was to open the file, use readlines to split the
lines on the "=" delimiter into a key/value pair (to be stored in a
dict).

After processing a couple files I noticed its possible that a newline
can be present in the value as shown in myValue2.

In this case its not an option to say remove the newlines if its a
"multi line" value as the value data needs to stay intact.

I'm a bit confused as how to go about getting this to work.

Any suggestions on an approach would be greatly appreciated!