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james_24
james_24

Reputation: 99

split only emoji in a list, but keep text

if I have a list that looks like this:

['📌📌📌📌📌📌', 'today', 'happy', '📌📌📌']

and I want to split only the emoji icons, not text :

['📌', '📌', '📌', '📌', '📌', '📌', 'today', 'happy', '📌', '📌', '📌']

I try these code but it didn't return what I want:

!pip install emoji
import emoji
emoji_list = list(emoji.UNICODE_EMOJI)

def split_emoji(input):
    result = []
    str_i = str(input)
    for i in str_i:
      if i in [*emoji_list]:
        result.append(i)
      else:
        result.append(i)

    return result

and the result:

[['📌', '📌', '📌', '📌', '📌', '📌'],
 ['t', 'o', 'd', 'a', 'y'],
 ['h', 'a', 'p', 'p', 'y'],
 ['📌', '📌', '📌']]

The icons are split perfectly, but I want to keep the text.

What should I do?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 252

Answers (2)

abc
abc

Reputation: 11929

You could convert strings with emojis in lists and put the words in a list according to the result of str.isalnum()

>>> l = ['📌📌📌📌📌📌', 'today', 'happy', '📌📌📌'] 
>>> res = list(itertools.chain(*[list(el) if not el.isalnum() else [el] for el in l]))
>>> res
['📌', '📌', '📌', '📌', '📌', '📌', 'today', 'happy', '📌', '📌', '📌']

or also

>>> res = []
>>> for el in l:
...     if el.isalnum():
...             res.append(el)
...     else:
...             res+=list(el)
... 
>>> res
['📌', '📌', '📌', '📌', '📌', '📌', 'today', 'happy', '📌', '📌', '📌']

Upvotes: 3

bharatk
bharatk

Reputation: 4315

Using extra for-loop to iterate list element of characters and validate char has emoji if yes then set is_emoji flag true and append emoji into list.

Ex.

import emoji
emoji_list = list(emoji.UNICODE_EMOJI)


myList = ['📌📌📌📌📌📌', 'today', 'happy', '📌📌📌'] 


def split_emoji(textArray):
    result = []
    for word in textArray:
        is_emoji = False

        # iterate element of characters and check char is emoji if yes 
        # then append into result list and set is_emogi flag true.
        for char in word:
            if char in [*emoji_list]:
                result.append(char)
                is_emoji = True

        # check is_emoji flag is false then append string into list.  
        if not is_emoji:
            result.append(word)

    return result

print(split_emoji(myList))

O/P:

['📌', '📌', '📌', '📌', '📌', '📌', 'today', 'happy', '📌', '📌', '📌']

Upvotes: 0

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