Regular expression matching a multiline block of text

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I"m having a bit of trouble getting a Python regex to work when matching against text that spans multiple lines. The example text is (" " is a newline)

some Varying TEXT



DSJFKDAFJKDAFJDSAKFJADSFLKDLAFKDSAF

[more of the above, ending with a newline]

[yep, there is a variable number of lines here]



(repeat the above a few hundred times).

I"d like to capture two things: the "some_Varying_TEXT" part, and all of the lines of uppercase text that comes two lines below it in one capture (i can strip out the newline characters later). I"ve tried with a few approaches:

re.compile(r"^>(w+)$$([.$]+)^$", re.MULTILINE) # try to capture both parts
re.compile(r"(^[^>][ws]+)$", re.MULTILINE|re.DOTALL) # just textlines

and a lot of variations hereof with no luck. The last one seems to match the lines of text one by one, which is not what I really want. I can catch the first part, no problem, but I can"t seem to catch the 4-5 lines of uppercase text. I"d like match.group(1) to be some_Varying_Text and group(2) to be line1+line2+line3+etc until the empty line is encountered.

If anyone"s curious, its supposed to be a sequence of aminoacids that make up a protein.

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