print python emoji as unicode string

Question

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

i tried

Answer 1

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')