print python emoji as unicode string

print python emoji as unicode string

Problem Description:

I’ve been trying to output '😄' as 'U0001f604' instead of the smiley, but it doesn’t seem to work.

I tried using repr() but it gives me this 'xf0x9fx98x84'. Currently it outputs the smiley which is not what I wanted. encode('unicode_escape') gives me a UnicodeDecodeError.

The smiley was passed as a string to a class method in python. i.e. "I am happy 😄"

Solution – 1

>>> print u'U0001f604'.encode('unicode-escape')
U0001f604

Solution – 2

I found the solution to the problem.

I wrote the following code:

#convert to unicode
teststring = unicode(teststring, 'utf-8')

#encode it with string escape
teststring = teststring.encode('unicode_escape')

Solution – 3

If this is for debugging purposes, you could use %r as the format specifier.

>>> print '%r' % u'U0001f604'
u'U0001f604'

Solution – 4

Just add

# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-

into your code and you will be able to print Unicode characters

Solution – 5

Another solution is to use the name aliases and print them using the string literal N

print('N{grinning face with smiling eyes}')

Current list of name aliases can be found at: https://unicode.org/Public/15.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData-15.0.0d6.txt

Or the Folder for everything here:
https://unicode.org/Public/

Solution – 6

This code might help you to see how you can simply print an emoji:

Code

# -*- coding: UTF-8 -*-
import re

# string = 'Anything else that you wish to match, except URLs http://url.org'
string = 'Anything else that you wish to match'
matches = re.search(r'^(((?!http|https).)+)$', string)
if matches:
    print(matches.group(1)+ " is a match 😄 ")
else: 
    print('🙀 Sorry! No matches! Something is not right!')

Output for string with URL

🙀 Sorry! No matches! Something is not right!

Output for string without URL

Anything else that you wish to match is a match 😄 

Solution – 7

I tried this and it worked perfectly fine

print(u'U0001f604')

So you will get the output

😄

So just put u at beginning of your string.
Hope it helps 😄

Solution – 8

Print Unicode with U+ prefix

I was looking a this usefull list of emoji Here and also This one

A part of just copy any emoji like –> 📀 I wanted to map in my code some of this emojy but using the code provided.
In the example of the link it would be like -> U+1F4C0
Now if you find the code formatted in this way, what you need to do is the following:

1. Replace "+" with "000"
2. Prefix the Unicode with ""

The result should be :

dict = 'U0001F4C0'
print(disc)
# 📀