How To Read Emoji In Python

Emojis are a popular way of expressing feelings and thoughts without using words. Understanding and decoding them can be very useful in many applications, such as chatbots, sentiment analysis tools, and social media monitoring systems.

In this tutorial, we will learn how to read and display emojis using Python and a few helpful libraries.

Step 1: Install the necessary libraries

First, let’s install the libraries we will be needing for this tutorial:

– emoji: A Python library to extract, read, and manipulate emojis.
– unicodedata: A module in the Python standard library for working with Unicode data.

You can install the emoji library using the following command:

1	pip install emoji

The unicodedata library is a part of the standard Python library, so there is no need to install anything else.

Step 2: Import the libraries

Now, let’s import the libraries in our script:

1 2	import emoji import unicodedata

Step 3: Reading emojis from text

We will use the emoji library to read emojis from a given text. Let’s create a function that takes a text string as input and returns a list of extracted emojis:

1 2	def extract_emojis(text): return [c for c in text if c in emoji.EMOJI_DATA]

Example:

text = "I love Python 🐍 and emojis 😍"

emojis = extract_emojis(text)

print(emojis)

The output will be:

['🐍', '😍']

Step 4: Analyze emojis

Now that we have extracted the emojis, we can use the unicodedata library to analyze them. The library contains a method called name() that returns the official Unicode name of a given character.

Using the name() method, we can create a function that takes a list of emojis and prints their names:

def print_emoji_names(emojis):

for e in emojis:

print(f"{e}: {unicodedata.name(e)}")

Example:

1	print_emoji_names(emojis)

The output will be:

🐍: SNAKE
😍: SMILING FACE WITH HEART-SHAPED EYES

Full code

import emoji

import unicodedata

def extract_emojis(text):

return [c for c in text if c in emoji.EMOJI_DATA]