Python/Jython parse e-mail

Question

I have parsed en e-mail message using Jython to get the e-mail mesages body value. Now I have the body value and I'd like to extract the following text from it.

The body contains text and I would like to extract the following text:

There are rows found in the body:

 [type]: mail
 [category]: Values
 [service]: testing
 [description]: Testing out automapping of email
 Line break Testing out automapping of email
 Line break Testing out automapping of email

Now I would like to extract all the value after the [description]: Is this possible? I tried this:

desc = '[description]:'
res = findall("{}.*".format(desc), body)[0]

Answer 1

A regex possible solution, but consider @StefanNch suggestion:

\\[description\\]:((?:.+\\n?)*)

import re
p = re.compile(ur'\[description\]:((?:.+\n?)*)')
test_str = u" [type]: mail\n [category]: Values\n [service]: testing\n [description]: Testing out automapping of email\n Line break Testing out automapping of email\n Line break Testing out automapping of email"
subst = u""

result = re.sub(p, subst, test_str)

re.search(p, test_str)

DEMO