The function file_first_chars in python takes one parameter, fname, the name of a text file, and returns a string made up of the first character from each line in the file.  You may assume there are no blank lines in the file. Hint: Use a for loop to iterate over the lines of the file and accumulate the string of first characters. NOTE: Return the function, don't print For example: Test Result print(file_first_chars("wordlist1.txt")) hsaem

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The function file_first_chars in python takes one parameter, fname, the name of a text file, and returns a string made up of the first character from each line in the file.  You may assume there are no blank lines in the file.

Hint: Use a for loop to iterate over the lines of the file and accumulate the string of first characters.

NOTE: Return the function, don't print

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print(file_first_chars("wordlist1.txt")) hsaem

 

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