Apply your regex knowledge to a practical text processing scenario. Your goal is to write a function that splits a paragraph into individual sentences. Each sentence ends with a period (`'.'`), exclamation mark (`'!'`), or question mark (`'?'`). Sentences may be followed by spaces or line breaks, and you should ensure that punctuation is included with each sentence in the output.

**Key requirements:**
- Use the `re` module for regular expressions;
- Detect sentence boundaries at `'.'`, `'!'`, or `'?'`;
- Include the punctuation mark at the end of each sentence;
- Remove leading and trailing whitespace from each sentence.

**Example input:**
```
paragraph = "Hello there! How are you? I hope you're enjoying learning Python."
```

**Expected output:**
```
['Hello there!', 'How are you?', "I hope you're enjoying learning Python."]
```

Use this challenge to strengthen your understanding of regex splitting and sentence boundary detection in Python.


import unittest
import user_code
import ast
import re   
import unittest
import importlib

class TestTask(unittest.TestCase):
    def test_simple_split(self):
        import user_code
        importlib.reload(user_code)
        text = "Hello! How are you? I am fine."
        expected = ["Hello!", "How are you?", "I am fine."]
        result = user_code.split_sentences(text)
        _dynamic_test(
            self,
            isinstance(result, list) and result == expected,
            "Correctly splits sentences with !, ? and .",
            f"Expected {expected}, got {result}",
        )

    def test_trailing_spaces(self):
        import user_code
        importlib.reload(user_code)
        text = "Hello!   How are you?   I am fine.  "
        expected = ["Hello!", "How are you?", "I am fine."]
        result = user_code.split_sentences(text)
        _dynamic_test(
            self,
            isinstance(result, list) and result == expected,
            "Removes extra spaces between and after sentences.",
            f"Expected {expected}, got {result}",
        )

    def test_multiline_paragraph(self):
        import user_code
        importlib.reload(user_code)
        text = "Hello!\\nHow are you?\\nI am fine.\\n"
        expected = ["Hello!", "How are you?", "I am fine."]
        result = user_code.split_sentences(text)
        _dynamic_test(
            self,
            isinstance(result, list) and result == expected,
            "Handles newlines between sentences.",
            f"Expected {expected}, got {result}",
        )

    def test_empty_string(self):
        import user_code
        importlib.reload(user_code)
        text = ""
        expected = []
        result = user_code.split_sentences(text)
        _dynamic_test(
            self,
            isinstance(result, list) and result == expected,
            "Returns empty list for empty input.",
            f"Expected empty list, got {result}",
        )

    def test_no_sentence_endings(self):
        import user_code
        importlib.reload(user_code)
        text = "This is not a sentence ending"
        expected = []
        result = user_code.split_sentences(text)
        _dynamic_test(
            self,
            isinstance(result, list) and result == expected,
            "Returns empty list if no sentence-ending punctuation.",
            f"Expected empty list, got {result}",
        )

    def test_multiple_punctuation(self):
        import user_code
        importlib.reload(user_code)
        text = "Wait. . . What? ! Seriously? !"
        expected = ["Wait.", ".", ".", "What?", "!", "Seriously?", "!"]
        result = user_code.split_sentences(text)
        _dynamic_test(
            self,
            isinstance(result, list) and result == expected,
            "Handles consecutive punctuation marks individually.",
            f"Expected {expected}, got {result}",
        )

    def test_leading_trailing_whitespace(self):
        import user_code
        importlib.reload(user_code)
        text = "   Hello!  "
        expected = ["Hello!"]
        result = user_code.split_sentences(text)
        _dynamic_test(
            self,
            isinstance(result, list) and result == expected,
            "Removes leading and trailing whitespace from sentence.",
            f"Expected {expected}, got {result}",
        )

def _dynamic_test(test_case, condition, success_message, failure_message):
    if condition:
        test_case._testMethodName = success_message
        test_case.assertTrue(True, success_message)
    else:
        test_case._testMethodName = failure_message
        test_case.fail(failure_message)

def normalize_text(text):
    text = text.lower()
    text = re.sub(r"\s{2,}", " ", text)
    text = re.sub(r"\s*([,:?])\s*", r"\1 ", text)
    return text.strip()

def change_var(code: str, var_name: str, value: str) -> str:
    tree = ast.parse(code)
    lines = code.splitlines()
    for i, node in enumerate(tree.body):
        if isinstance(node, ast.Assign):
            for target in node.targets:
                if isinstance(target, ast.Name) and target.id == var_name:
                    start_line = node.lineno - 1
                    line = lines[start_line]
                    indent = ' ' * (len(line) - len(line.lstrip()))
                    lines[start_line] = f"{indent}{var_name} = {value}"
                    next_line = len(lines)
                    for next_node in tree.body[i+1:]:
                        if hasattr(next_node, 'lineno'):
                            next_line = next_node.lineno - 1
                            break
                    if next_line > start_line + 1:
                        lines[start_line+1:next_line] = []
                    
                    return '\\n'.join(lines)
    return code

if __name__ == "__main__":
    unittest.main()


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