Write a function that accepts names of two files: source and target as arguments and copies alternate characters from the source file to the target file. The function should return -1 if the source file does not exist.   (Question of python)

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Section8.4: File Streams As Function Arguments
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Write a function that accepts names of two files: source and target as arguments and
copies alternate characters from the source file to the target file. The function should
return -1 if the source file does not exist.

 

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