Extracting information from a file

[lokhtar]

Hello guys,

I have a directory with a lot of text files, I need to loop through them and extract a certain section from them. The Text files are formatted in a standard way, in this way:

ABC: this is a text
 
SECTION 2: this is more text
 
ANOTHER SECTION: blah blah blah. This is another section
 
SECTION 4:
SECTION 5:
* A list
* Another list. I need this
 
YET ANOTHER SECTION: A bunch. of sentences. exist here.
 
OTHER FINDINGS: None.
 
FINAL
THIS IS NOT IMPORTANT

What I need to do, is to extract the "section 5" portion of the text. I know the split method, but splitting the file by ":", and then further splitting by "*" - doesn't quite seem right:

import glob

#list of all the text files
path = "reports/*.txt"


file_id=0

#loop through files, one at a time
for file_name in glob.glob(path):
    file_id += 1
    
    with open (file_name, 'rt') as myfile:
        current_file = myfile.read()
        
    section_list = current_file.split(':')
    for list_section in section_list:
        further_split = list_section.split('*')
        for x in further_split:
            print("An item in list :" + str(further_split))

Is there a more elegant/better way to get to what I need? What I am really after is that within the section that I care about, I want to loop through each of the subsections, which are delineated by "*" and work with those strings.

I would appreciate any help!