How to decode javascript unicode string in python?

Question

I found that it is a character of TWO HEARTS here. I tried to decode it:

a = 'ud83dudc95'
a.encode('utf-8').decode('utf-8')
UnicodeEncodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't encode characters in position 0-1: surrogates not allowed

How to get the right symbol?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Use json module to help you solve different Unicode.

import json

a = 'ud83dudc95'
m = json.dumps({"k": a})
print(json.loads(m)["k"])  # ??