how to remove emoji from text in python

1import re
2txt = 'He is so happy (smiley emoji)' # <-- grepper doesn't support emoji, so just assume it has
3def deEmojify(text):
4    regrex_pattern = re.compile(pattern = "["
5        u"\U0001F600-\U0001F64F"  # emoticons
6        u"\U0001F300-\U0001F5FF"  # symbols & pictographs
7        u"\U0001F680-\U0001F6FF"  # transport & map symbols
8        u"\U0001F1E0-\U0001F1FF"  # flags (iOS)
9                           "]+", flags = re.UNICODE)
10    return regrex_pattern.sub(r'',text)
11print(deEmojify(txt))
12
13# output
14'He is so happy'
15
16# full version of emoji cleaner
17def deEmojify(text):
18    "function to remove emojis from text"
19    regrex_pattern = re.compile("["
20        u"\U0001F600-\U0001F64F"  # emoticons
21        u"\U0001F300-\U0001F5FF"  # symbols & pictographs
22        u"\U0001F680-\U0001F6FF"  # transport & map symbols
23        u"\U0001F1E0-\U0001F1FF"  # flags (iOS)
24        u"\U00002500-\U00002BEF"  # chinese char
25        u"\U00002702-\U000027B0"
26        u"\U00002702-\U000027B0"
27        u"\U000024C2-\U0001F251"
28        u"\U0001f926-\U0001f937"
29        u"\U00010000-\U0010ffff"
30        u"\u2640-\u2642" 
31        u"\u2600-\u2B55"
32        u"\u200d"
33        u"\u23cf"
34        u"\u23e9"
35        u"\u231a"
36        u"\ufe0f"  # dingbats
37        u"\u3030"
38                      "]+", re.UNICODE)
39    return regrex_pattern.sub(r'',text)
40print(deEmojify(txt))