def remove_emoji()

in python-app/comment-stream.py [0:0]

• 11 lines of code
• 1 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

def remove_emoji(comment):
    emoji_pattern = re.compile("["
       u"\U0001F600-\U0001F64F"  # emoticons
       u"\U0001F300-\U0001F5FF"  # symbols & pictographs
       u"\U0001F680-\U0001F6FF"  # transport & map symbols
       u"\U0001F1E0-\U0001F1FF"  # flags (iOS)
       u"\U00002702-\U00002f7B0"
       u"\U000024C2-\U0001F251"
       "]+", flags=re.UNICODE)

    cleaned_comment =  emoji_pattern.sub(r'', comment)

    return cleaned_comment