import re import sys inFile = sys.argv[1] outFile = sys.argv[2] with open(inFile, "r", encoding="utf-8") as sampleCheck, open(outFile, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as outputFile: pattern = re.compile(r'\b\d+\b') for line in sampleCheck: matches = re.findall(pattern, line) if matches: result = ' '.join(matches) outputFile.write(result + '\n') print(result)