Discussion Assignment
practice with lists and file I/O

1. Write a function makeList(inList) that takes a list as its argument, and returns a list which is:

• the empty list, if inList is empty,
• the same as inList, if inList contains 1 element,
• the list containing the first and last items in inList, otherwise.

2. Write a Python function firstChar(fileName) which takes a file name as its argument, and returns a string that is formed from the first character in each line of the file.