How to identify same emoji of different colors/skin tone in python?

Question

How to identify same emoji with different colours?

Example: 👍🏻 👍🏽 👍 the should be considered as being the same

Edit: Currently I am using emoji package

import regex
import emoji
exm = "poli kariku fans adi like 👍🏻 👍🏽 👍 sub tharamo"
characters = regex.findall("\X",exm)
for char in character:
  if char in emoji.UNICODE_EMOJI:
     #do something

Answer 1

I don't think you need to use regex for your use case you can just use the length of the emoji:

import emoji

NUM_COLUMNS = 4
TABLE_COLUMN_WIDTH = 18

def is_emoji(s):
    return s in emoji.UNICODE_EMOJI

def is_default_emoji(s):
    return len(s) == 1 and s in emoji.UNICODE_EMOJI

def get_default_emoji(s):
    return s[0] if s in emoji.UNICODE_EMOJI else None

def pretty_print_line(line):
    print(''.join(word.ljust(TABLE_COLUMN_WIDTH) for word in line.split()))

text = "poli kariku fans adi like 👍🏻 👍🏼 👍🏽 👍🏾 👍🏿 👍 sub tharamo"

pretty_print_line("string is_emoji is_default_emoji get_default_emoji")
print("=" * NUM_COLUMNS * TABLE_COLUMN_WIDTH)
for s in text.split():
    pretty_print_line(f'{s} {is_emoji(s)} {is_default_emoji(s)} {get_default_emoji(s)}')

Output:

string            is_emoji          is_default_emoji  get_default_emoji 
========================================================================
poli              False             False             None              
kariku            False             False             None              
fans              False             False             None              
adi               False             False             None              
like              False             False             None              
👍🏻                True              False             👍                 
👍🏼                True              False             👍                 
👍🏽                True              False             👍                 
👍🏾                True              False             👍                 
👍🏿                True              False             👍                 
👍                True              True              👍                 
sub               False             False             None              
tharamo           False             False             None  

You could use some logic similar to get_default_emoji for your use case since it returns the same emoji regardless of the presence or lack of presence of a skin tone modifier.