How do I use an emoji in Python?

Q: How do I use an emoji in Python?

Python 3 strings are Unicode by default: s = "🎉" just works. To look up by name, use the unicodedata module: import unicodedata; unicodedata.lookup("PARTY POPPER"). The emoji package on PyPI handles detection, counting and shortcode conversion.

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Python 3 strings are Unicode by default: s = "🎉" just works. To look up by name, use the unicodedata module: import unicodedata; unicodedata.lookup("PARTY POPPER"). The emoji package on PyPI handles detection, counting and shortcode conversion.

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