I found this code in Python for removing emojis but it is not working. Can you help with other codes or fix to this?
I have observed all my emjois start with \xf but when I try to search for str.startswith("\xf") I get invalid character error.
emoji_pattern = r'/[x{1F601}-x{1F64F}]/u'
re.sub(emoji_pattern, '', word)
Here's the error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "test.py", line 52, in
re.sub(emoji_pattern,'',word)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/re.py", line 151, in sub
return _compile(pattern, flags).sub(repl, string, count)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/re.py", line 244, in _compile
raise error, v # invalid expression
sre_constants.error: bad character range
Each of the items in a list can be a word ['This', 'dog', '\xf0\x9f\x98\x82', 'https://t.co/5N86jYipOI']
UPDATE:
I used this other code:
emoji_pattern=re.compile(ur" " " [\U0001F600-\U0001F64F] # emoticons \
|\
[\U0001F300-\U0001F5FF] # symbols & pictographs\
|\
[\U0001F680-\U0001F6FF] # transport & map symbols\
|\
[\U0001F1E0-\U0001F1FF] # flags (iOS)\
" " ", re.VERBOSE)
emoji_pattern.sub('', word)
But this still doesn't remove the emojis and shows them! Any clue why is that?
解决方案
I am updating my answer to this by @jfs because my previous answer failed to account for other Unicode standards such as Latin, Greek etc. StackOverFlow doesn't allow me to delete my previous answer hence I am updating it to match the most acceptable answer to the question.
#!/usr/bin/env python
import re
text = u'This is a smiley face \U0001f602'
print(text) # with emoji
def deEmojify(text):
regrex_pattern = re.compile(pattern = "["
u"\U0001F600-\U0001F64F" # emoticons
u"\U0001F300-\U0001F5FF" # symbols & pictographs
u"\U0001F680-\U0001F6FF" # transport & map symbols
u"\U0001F1E0-\U0001F1FF" # flags (iOS)
"]+", flags = re.UNICODE)
return regrex_pattern.sub(r'',text)
print(deEmojify(text))
This was my previous answer, do not use this.
def deEmojify(inputString):
return inputString.encode('ascii', 'ignore').decode('ascii')