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Python regex to strip emoji from a string
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strip_emoji.py
import re
# http://stackoverflow.com/a/13752628/6762004
RE_EMOJI = re.compile('[\U00010000-\U0010ffff]', flags=re.UNICODE)
def strip_emoji(text):
return RE_EMOJI.sub(r'', text)
print(strip_emoji('🙄🤔'))
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mgaitan commented May 13, 2021

@clichedmoog you are totally right, everything here is a simplification

. For a complete/accurate emoji remover for python I recommend the library https://github.com/bsolomon1124/demoji which download the latest emoji specification to build the pattern. It's not super fast but it's exhaustive.

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