Help on a find Next Statement

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I am making a program that needs to grab a string input ie:

"green * 10 + white *10 + Blue *10 + Yellow *10 + Red * 20"

I am looking to parse only the numbers and colors out of the string. I searched the forum and I found this example:

colors=['green','white','blue','yellow','red']
R=re.compile [colors]

However, this is not working correctly! Any help would be much appreiciated.