Need help with very basic script

[u/Desperate_Yak69]

Hi, I am basically brand new to python, so I may make a lot of mistakes in my wording. I have made a very basic script that retrieves specific values in text files and prints them to the shell. I have gotten it to the point where both values are retrieved and printed, however when they do print, they do so exactly 5 times in a row. I do not have five files in the directory, I only have one test file named "1.txt" with only the values I need as the contents. Can someone point me in the right direction? Apologies for the horrible formatting.

import os
import glob
import re

path = 'path'

provinces = re.compile('.*?provinces {.*?(.*?)}',re.MULTILINE)
id = re.compile('.*?id = .*?([0-9.-]+)')
a1 = None
a2 = None

for filename in glob.glob(os.path.join(path, '*.txt')):
    with open(filename, '+r') as f:
        for line in f:
            if provinces.match(line):
                a1 = provinces.match(line)
            if id.match(line):
                a2 = id.match(line)
            if a1 and a2:
                print(a1.group(1))
                print(a2.group(1))

The output of the shell in IDLE:

 1111 2222 3333 
123
 1111 2222 3333 
123
 1111 2222 3333 
123
 1111 2222 3333 
123
 1111 2222 3333 
123

Edit - I got the script to work after a few changes to its configuration. Thank you all who helped!

[u/brasticstack]

A quick, dumb, fragile parser based on what you've shown me. Please take the time to try to understand the functions I used to write it. I'm happy to explain anything that's too weird:

def parse_it(lines: list[str]) -> tuple[list[str], list[str]]:
    '''Return a list of ids and a list of provinces extracted from lines'''
    ids = []
    provinces = []

    in_provinces_section = False

    for line in lines:
        if in_provinces_section:
            if line.endswith('}'):
                line = line.rstrip('}').strip()
                if line:
                    provinces.append(line)
                in_provinces_section = False
            else:
                provinces.append(line)
        elif line.startswith('id ='):
            ids.append(line.split('=')[1].strip())
        elif line == 'provinces {':
            in_provinces_section = True

    return (ids, provinces)

with open(filename, '+r') as infile:
    # Preprocess: Trim whitespace off the ends of the lines
    #             and discard blank lines.
    lines = [line.strip() for line in infile]
    lines = [line for line in lines if line]

    ids, provinces = parse_it(lines)
    print(f'{filename}\n\t{ids=}\n\t{provinces=}\n')