import os, re self_path: str = os.path.dirname(__file__) src_file: str = os.path.join(self_path, '../../BMap/BMExports.hpp') dst_file: str = os.path.join(self_path, 'dest/BMExports.hpp') with open(src_file, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as fsrc: # read full text fulltext: str = fsrc.read() # do findall and write into file with open(dst_file, 'w', encoding='utf-8') as fdst: for item in re.findall('^LIBCMO_EXPORT[^;]+;', fulltext, re.MULTILINE): fdst.write(item) fdst.write('\n') print('DONE')