remove the emoji string From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33404752/removing-emojis-from-a-string-in-python
#!/usr/bin/env python
import re
text = u'This dog \U0001f602'
print(text) # with emoji
emoji_pattern = re.compile("["
u"\U0001F600-\U0001F64F" # emoticons
u"\U0001F300-\U0001F5FF" # symbols & pictographs
u"\U0001F680-\U0001F6FF" # transport & map symbols
u"\U0001F1E0-\U0001F1FF" # flags (iOS)
"]+", flags=re.UNICODE)
print(emoji_pattern.sub(r'', text)) # no emoji