Extracting information from a file

[Larz60+]

This will get you started. I switched to pathlib (requires python 3.6 or newer) rather than Glob as it is OOP
and then just printer each line without modification.

You can add your parsing back in from here

import os
from pathlib import Path


def read_files():
    # assure that starting path is script path
    os.chdir(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)))

    file_id = 0

    #list of all the text files
    scriptpath = Path('.')
    reportpath = scriptpath / 'reports'
    # print(f"working directory: {reportpath.resolve()}")

    # Get list of text files
    textfiles = [filename for filename in reportpath.iterdir() \
        if filename.is_file() and filename.suffix == '.txt']

    print()

    for filename  in textfiles: 
    # #loop through files, one at a time
    # for file_name in glob.glob(path):
        file_id += 1
        
        with filename.open() as myfile:
            for line in myfile:
                line = line.strip()
                print(f"{line}")
        # 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))

if __name__ == '__main__':
    read_files()

output:

Output:
ABC: this is a text file.  I need to do stuff with it.

SECTION 2: this is more text

ANOTHER SECTION: blah blah blah. I have lots of information here.

SECTION 4:
SECTION 5:
* A list
* Another list. I need this

YET ANOTHER SECTION: A bunch. of sentences. exist here.
* Another list. I don't need this

OTHER FINDINGS: None.

FINAL
THIS IS NOT IMPORTANT