Please follow the instructions The function first_words in python takes one parameter, fname, the name of a text file, and returns a list containing the first word from each line of the file. For example, if the file contents are: apples are red bananas are yellow limes are green then the list ["apples", "bananas", "limes"] should be returned. NOTE: You may assume the file will contain no blank lines. BIG HINT: If line is a string representing a line of text (inside of a for loop!), then L = line.split() creates a list of the words in the line. For example: Test Result L = first_words("snakes.txt") print(L) ['Cottonmouth', 'Timber', 'Black', 'Tiger', 'Copperhead', 'Eastern', 'Western', 'Eastern', 'Prairie', 'Mojave']

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The function first_words in python takes one parameter, fname, the name of a text file, and returns a list containing the first word from each line of the file. For example, if the file contents are:

apples are red bananas are yellow limes are green then the list ["apples", "bananas", "limes"] should be returned.

NOTE: You may assume the file will contain no blank lines.
BIG HINT: If line is a string representing a line of text (inside of a for loop!), then L = line.split() creates a list of the words in the line.

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Test Result
L = first_words("snakes.txt") print(L) ['Cottonmouth', 'Timber', 'Black', 'Tiger', 'Copperhead', 'Eastern', 'Western', 'Eastern', 'Prairie', 'Mojave']

 

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