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SDSMTKyzer
SDSMTKyzer

Reputation: 112

Python Unicode Handling

I've looked through several questions and I can't seem to find the exact answer to what I need.

I am trying to figure out how to take an emoji and use unicodedata.name() to return it's name.

So for example, I have this emoji: 💩. I want to be able to get it's identifier and get the value of it's name (PILE OF POO). I want to know how to construct the string to pass in to the name function:

unicodedata.name(u'\U0001f4a9')

The above code works. However passing as such:

unicodedata.name(💩)

returns the following: 

mojidict['hi'] = unicodedata.name(\U0001f4a9)                                     ^                                 ^
SyntaxError: invalid character in identifier

Upvotes: 0

Views: 418

Answers (1)

Andrew Guy
Andrew Guy

Reputation: 9998

The solution is very simple:

import unicodedata

unicodedata.name('💩')

which returns:

'PILE OF POO'

Upvotes: 2

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