## Instructions:

To further develop your skills with advanced regular expressions, your task is to create a function that extracts all hashtags from a social media post.

A **hashtag** is any word that starts with the `#` character, followed by one or more alphanumeric characters or underscores, and is not immediately preceded by another word character.

Your function should:

- Handle hashtags at the beginning or end of the text;
- Correctly extract hashtags surrounded by punctuation or whitespace;
- Return all hashtags exactly as they appear in the text, including the `#` symbol.

**Example:**

Given the input:

```python
"Excited for the #Python3_12 release! #coding #AI #100DaysOfCode"
```

you should return:

```python
['#Python3_12', '#coding', '#AI', '#100DaysOfCode']
```

Use regular expressions to solve this challenge and pay special attention to edge cases.


import unittest
import user_code
import ast
import re   
import unittest
import importlib
import io
from contextlib import redirect_stdout

class TestTask(unittest.TestCase):
    def test_example_hashtags(self):
        import user_code
        importlib.reload(user_code)
        result = user_code.extract_hashtags("Excited for the #Python3_12 release! #coding #AI #100DaysOfCode")
        expected = ['#Python3_12', '#coding', '#AI', '#100DaysOfCode']
        _dynamic_test(
            self,
            isinstance(result, list) and result == expected,
            "Correct hashtags extracted from example text",
            f"Expected {expected}, got {result}",
        )

    def test_hashtags_with_punctuation(self):
        import user_code
        importlib.reload(user_code)
        result = user_code.extract_hashtags("Check this! #fun, #challenge.#end #_underscore #123 ")
        expected = ['#fun', '#challenge', '#end', '#_underscore', '#123']
        _dynamic_test(
            self,
            isinstance(result, list) and result == expected,
            "Correctly extracts hashtags with punctuation and underscores",
            f"Expected {expected}, got {result}",
        )

    def test_hashtags_at_edges(self):
        import user_code
        importlib.reload(user_code)
        result = user_code.extract_hashtags("#start Middle #middle End#not #end")
        expected = ['#start', '#middle', '#end']
        _dynamic_test(
            self,
            isinstance(result, list) and result == expected,
            "Correctly extracts hashtags at the start and end of text",
            f"Expected {expected}, got {result}",
        )

    def test_no_hashtags(self):
        import user_code
        importlib.reload(user_code)
        result = user_code.extract_hashtags("There are no hashtags here.")
        expected = []
        _dynamic_test(
            self,
            isinstance(result, list) and result == expected,
            "Returns empty list when no hashtags are present",
            f"Expected {expected}, got {result}",
        )

    def test_hashtag_not_preceded_by_wordchar(self):
        import user_code
        importlib.reload(user_code)
        result = user_code.extract_hashtags("abc#wrong #right")
        expected = ['#right']
        _dynamic_test(
            self,
            isinstance(result, list) and result == expected,
            "Does not match hashtags immediately following a word character",
            f"Expected {expected}, got {result}",
        )

    def test_multiple_adjacent_hashtags(self):
        import user_code
        importlib.reload(user_code)
        result = user_code.extract_hashtags("##double #single###triple")
        expected = ['#double', '#single', '#triple']
        _dynamic_test(
            self,
            isinstance(result, list) and result == expected,
            "Extracts hashtags from multiple adjacent hashes",
            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()


test_main.py

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Challenge: Extract Hashtags from Social Media Text

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