Python List Compensation to compare single list of numbers in two text files extracting the matching numbers into a single list

Find Matching Value from two lists.py

# # PYTHON LIST COMPENSATION 
# compare single list of numbers 
# in two text files extracting the matching numbers into a single list 

# NOTE: in file1 & file2 the numbers are a single column in each list.



with open('file1.txt') as f:
    file1 = [int(n) for n in f]


with open("file2.txt") as f:
    file2 = [int(n) for n in f]

result = [element for element in file1 if element in file2]

print(result)