Python string clean-up

Question

How would you start going about when you have a bunch of dirty OCR text files from archive.org and you want to throw out every word that is not included in a list of words in a dictionary?
I want to do that in Python...
Any help appreciated! ;)

Answer 1

words = [word for word in list if word in dictionary]

Steven I think those are both syntactically wrong 🤔

Answer 2

Steven thank you for taking the time and answering in an abstract yet detailed way.
I will see what I can do!

Answer 3

Hehe thanks Anna

Answer 4

Following up on my own question: I figured out a way that works for me without much hassle, comparing the text as a set using difference ():

https://code.sololearn.com/cQ12Vw72r4ro/?ref=app