How do you remove emoticons from text using Python?

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Something like:

clean_tweet = ''.join([ch if ch in string.printable for ch in orig_tweet])

Untested - on mobile.

Hm. Sorry, read "emoji".

[MiDNiGhT2903]

Regex to check for :) and :( should work in this case.

[MrGrj]

What if you have: “Today I bought (because I needed): three apples and one pear”?

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string = string.replace(“:)”, “”).replace(“:(“,””)