read the lines of the file until it reaches the end, print out the last line in the file, report the number of lines contained in the file,

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The function print_last_line in python takes one parameter, fname, the name of a text file. The function should open the file for reading, read the lines of the file until it reaches the end, print out the last line in the file, report the number of lines contained in the file, and close the file.

Hint: Use a for loop to iterate over the lines and accumulate the count.

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print_last_line("wordlist1.txt") maudlin The file has 5 lines.

 

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