Match unicode emoji in python regex

Question

I need to extract the text between a number and an emoticon in a text

example text:

blah xzuyguhbc ibcbb bqw 2 extract1  ☺️ jbjhcb 6 extract2          


        

Answer 1

So this may or not work depending on your needs. If you know the emoji's ahead of time though this will probably work, you just need a list of the types of emoticons to expect.

Anyway without more information, this is what I'd do.

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import re

my_regex = re.compile(r'\d\s*([^☺️|^