remove the emoji string From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33404752/removing-emojis-from-a-string-in-python

remove_emoji.py

#!/usr/bin/env python 
import re  
text = u'This dog \U0001f602' 
print(text) # with emoji  
emoji_pattern = re.compile("["         
              u"\U0001F600-\U0001F64F"  # emoticons         
              u"\U0001F300-\U0001F5FF"  # symbols & pictographs         
              u"\U0001F680-\U0001F6FF"  # transport & map symbols         
              u"\U0001F1E0-\U0001F1FF"  # flags (iOS)                            
              "]+", flags=re.UNICODE) 
print(emoji_pattern.sub(r'', text)) # no emoji