Finding a number in a file printing out number and next word

[petertyler]

Hi,
I am in Need of a little help. I wish to search within a text file and retrieve into another text file. The numbers and the words that appear after the numbers.
for example:
We have 40 white candies, 24 green ones, 12 red ones, 24 yellow ones and 20 blue ones.
40 white
24 green
12 red
24 yellow
20 blue
I managed to isolate the numbers - but I have confounded myself on how to grab the next word after the number.

# Import the regular expression module
import re

# Find the numeric values: matches
matches = re.findall('\d+', 'We have 40 white candies, 24 green ones, 12 red ones, 24 yellow ones and 20 blue ones.')

# Print the matches
print(matches)

RESULT
['40', '24', '12', '24', '20']

[snippsat]

Match the whitespace(\s) and word(\w+) after numbers

>>> import re
>>> 
>>> matches = re.findall(r'\d+\s\w+', 'We have 40 white candies, 24 green ones, 12 red ones, 24 yellow ones and 20 blue ones.')
>>> matches
['40 white', '24 green', '12 red', '24 yellow', '20 blue']

[petertyler]

Thank you - so appreciated