Detecting emoji presence in raw text with regular expressions.

unicode_regex.py

import re

all_text = "💁🏾💁🏾💁🏾💁 🤗 😩😩😩"
txt_utf_8 = all_text.decode('utf-8')
re.findall(ur'(\ud838[\udc50-\udfff])|([\ud839-\ud83d][\udc00-\udfff])|\
           (\ud83e[\udc00-\udfbf])|([\udc50-\udfff]\ud838)|\
           ([\udc00-\udfff][\ud839-\ud83d])|([\udc00-\udfbf]\ud83e)'\
           ,txt_utf_8)