How to find and count emoticons in a string using python?

Question

This topic has been addressed for text based emoticons at link1, link2, link3. However, I would like to do something slightly different than matching simple emoticons. I\'m

Answer 1

My solution includes the emoji and regex modules. The regex module supports recognizing grapheme clusters (sequences of Unicode codepoints rendered as a single character), so we can count emojis like