The Dark Knight Problem

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Here's a quote from The Dark Knight

quote = (
    "Because we have to chase him.Because he's the hero Gotham "
    "deserves, but not the one it needs right now, so we'll hunt "
    "him.Because he can take it, because he's not a hero.He's a "
    "silent guardian, a watchful protector, a Dark Knight."
)

Split the string into a list of distinct sentences. Each sentence should end with and include a period.

Expected result

quotes = [
    'Because we have to chase him.', 
    "Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now, so we'll hunt him.", 
    "Because he can take it, because he's not a hero.", 
    "He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector, a Dark Knight."
]

Regex Functions

Function	Description	Return Value
re.findall(pattern, string, flags=0)	Find all non-overlapping occurrences of pattern in string	list of strings, or list of tuples if > 1 capture group
re.finditer(pattern, string, flags=0)	Find all non-overlapping occurrences of pattern in string	iterator yielding match objects
re.search(pattern, string, flags=0)	Find first occurrence of pattern in string	match object or None
re.split(pattern, string, maxsplit=0, flags=0)	Split string by occurrences of pattern	list of strings
re.sub(pattern, repl, string, count=0, flags=0)	Replace pattern with repl	new string with the replacement(s)

Regex Patterns

Pattern	Description
[abc]	a or b or c
[^abc]	not (a or b or c)
[a-z]	a or b ... or y or z
[1-9]	1 or 2 ... or 8 or 9
\d	digits [0-9]
\D	non-digits [^0-9]
\s	whitespace [ \t\n\r\f\v]
\S	non-whitespace [^ \t\n\r\f\v]
\w	alphanumeric [a-zA-Z0-9_]
\W	non-alphanumeric [^a-zA-Z0-9_]
.	any character
x*	zero or more repetitions of x
x+	one or more repetitions of x
x?	zero or one repetitions of x
{m}	m repetitions
{m,n}	m to n repetitions
{m,n}	m to n repetitions
\\, \., \*	backslash, period, asterisk
\b	word boundary
^hello	starts with hello
bye$	ends with bye
(...)	capture group
(po|go)	po or go

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