Is there a specific range of unicode code points which can be checked for emojis?

Question

Do emojis occupy a well-defined unicode range?

And, is there a definitive way to check whether a code point is an emoji in python 2.7?

I cannot seem to find

Answer 1

regex supports matching by Unicode property, but unfortunately it does not (yet?) support the emoji-specific properties. When it does, finding them will be as simple as:

>>> regex.match(ur'\P{Emoji=yes}', u'