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

Just add

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

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

Answer 2

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                                                                     

                                                        
            

Answer 3

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://www.unicode.org/Public/14.0.0/ucd/NamesList-14.0.0d1.txt

Answer 4

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

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

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

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')