Napoleon Dynamite Problem¶

Here are quotes from Napoleon Dynamite.

quotes = [
    "Tina you fat lard!",
    "Your mom goes to college.",
    "How long did it take you to grow that mustache?",
    "Kip, Bring Me My Chapstick!",
    "I Caught You A Delicious Bass.",
    "I Told You! I Spent It With My Uncle In Alaska Hunting Wolverines!",
    "How Much Do You Want To Bet I Can Throw This Football Over Them Mountains?",
    "Napoleon, Don't Be Jealous That I've Been Chatting Online With Babes All Day"
]

Subset this list down to quotes that meet the following condition:

The first vowel in the quote matches the last vowel in the quote, regardless of character case.

Expected result

filtered = [
    "Kip, Bring Me My Chapstick!", # (1)!
    "Napoleon, Don't Be Jealous That I've Been Chatting Online With Babes All Day" # (2)!
]

The first and last observed vowel is i
The first and last observed vowel is a

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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