Python regex to strip emoji from a string

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('🙄🤔'))

Thanks for you help.

def add_space_between_emojies(text):
    '''
    >>> add_space_between_emojies('Python is fun 💚')
    'Python is fun '    
    '''
    from advertools.emoji import EMOJI
    EMOJI_PATTERN = EMOJI
    text = re.sub(EMOJI_PATTERN, r'', text)
    return text

Sorry to say this but I think @mgaitan's regex is not perfect.
The recent emoji character includes various combinations and patterns so it would be more complex expression.
And this would be good implementation example by javascript: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/emoji-regex

@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.