How to print red heart in python 3

Question

I need to print the red heart emoji ❤️️ with unicode in Python 3 but it has two unicodes (\U00002764 and \U0000FE0F). How am I suppose to print it?

For example, a green heart is print("\U0001F49A")

enjoy all python emojis including red heart and even green heart https://medium.com/@codingpilot25/how-to-print-emojis-using-python-2e4f93443f7e — , Oct 01 '20 at 18:39
Why not just include the emoji itself in your code, rather than escape it? — Konrad Rudolph, Oct 01 '20 at 18:46
It's a composite character, so you print both, for example `print(c1 + c2)`. — snakecharmerb, Oct 01 '20 at 18:46

Akanksha Atrey · Answer 1 · 2020-10-01T18:49:57.817

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Neither of the two unicodes worked for me - they both printed black hearts. The red heart requires combining the two unicodes:

print("\u2764\uFE0F")

Explanation for why it requires two unicodes can be found here.

edited Oct 01 '20 at 18:49

answered Oct 01 '20 at 18:45

Akanksha Atrey

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It only printed a black heart for me. What IDE are you using? I can try using that IDE – David W Oct 01 '20 at 18:47
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I tried it on Jupyter Notebook with Python 3.6. It also worked directly on my terminal by opening a python3 environment. – Akanksha Atrey Oct 01 '20 at 18:48

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 01 '20 at 19:14

>>> print("\u2764\ufe0f")
❤️

Whether it "works" depends on the font you have and which glyphs it supports. Here's the same character in a non-code font (literally copy/pasted from the above):

❤️

In some more detail, U+2764 is HEAVY BLACK HEART and typically renders as a black heart: ❤

U+FE0F is VARIATION SELECTOR 16 which is a combining character which modifies the previous character, in this case to turn the heart red.

Neither of these code points has more than four hex digits so using the long-hand \U00000000 form is unnecessary.

(For what it's worth, in the text above, I see a black heart in the code font, and a red one in the regular body text font. In the MacOS Terminal, the red heart renders in a different font, so there I see it as a red heart in the Python REPL, too.)

For what it's worth, in the mobile version of this site, I see a red heart in the code block, too (Firefox on iPhone). But then it renders the undecorated U+2764 glyph as a red heart, too. — tripleee, Oct 01 '20 at 19:24

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