python表情怎么打出来,将python表情符号打印为unicode字符串

I've been trying to output

as '\U0001f604' instead of the smiley but it doesn't seem to work.

i tried using repr() but it gives me this '\xf0\x9f\x98\x84'. Currently it outputs as the smiley which is not what I wanted. encode('unicode_escape') gives me a UnicodeDecodeError.

The smiley was passed as a string to a class method in python. i.e. "I am happy

"

Appreciate if anyone could help.

Sorry for the big smiley. The markdown doesn't seem to work here.

解决方案

I found the solution to the problem.

I wrote the following code:

#convert to unicode

teststring = unicode(teststring, 'utf-8')

#encode it with string escape

teststring = teststring.encode('unicode_escape')