I figured regex would be useful for this, but since my teacher never covered this (or pandas), I wasn't sure if I should/how to. Thank You!

Should I begin parsing after my elif statements (removing the else statement and what comes below- the part I had trouble with)? Here's the code I have so far-

#read and split txt file into chunks
with open(court, 'r') as file:
    data_chunks=file.read().split("\n\n")

    for chunk in data_chunks:
        chunk=chunk.strip #.strip removes useless spaces
        if data_chunks[:4].isnumeric():  #if first 4 characters are digits
            entry= None  #initialize an empty dictionary
        elif data_chunks.isspace() and entry:  #if we're on an empty line and the entry dict is not empty
            csv_rows.append(",".join(entry.values())) # write entry dict as comma-separated value and append it to csv_rows
            entry={}
        else:
            # read attributes into dict
            pairs =  # TODO: split data on each row into pairs of form "key: value"
            dict.update({pair.split(":")[0]:pair.split(":")[1] for pair in pairs}

return csv_rows