python function that removes emojis from text

clean_emoji

def clean_emoji(text):
    import re

    try:
        # Wide UCS-4 build
        emoji_re = re.compile(u'['
                              u'\U0001F300-\U0001F64F'
                              u'\U0001F680-\U0001F6FF'
                              u'\u2600-\u26FF\u2700-\u27BF]+',
                              re.UNICODE)
    except re.error:
        # Narrow UCS-2 build
        emoji_re = re.compile(u'('
                              u'\ud83c[\udf00-\udfff]|'
                              u'\ud83d[\udc00-\ude4f\ude80-\udeff]|'
                              u'[\u2600-\u26FF\u2700-\u27BF])+',
                              re.UNICODE)

    text = emoji_re.sub(u'', text)

    return text