DeEmojify.py

import unicodedata
from unidecode import unidecode


def deEmojify(inputString):
	returnString = ""

	for character in inputString:
		try:
			character.encode("ascii")
			returnString += character
		except UnicodeEncodeError:
			replaced = unidecode(str(character))
			if replaced != '':
				returnString += replaced
			else:
				try:
					 returnString += unicodedata.name(character)
				except ValueError:
					 returnString += "x"

	return returnString