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The emoji (unicode) bite

Level: Advanced (score: 4)

Python 3 supports Unicode so we can do cool stuff like ... emojis 😅

Let's play a bit with emoji-to-text and vice versa. Complete the two functions below to get the meaning of an emoji, and secondly build a lookup of emojis by string.

No external modules required, you will leverage (once more) the standard library: use the unicodedata module. And this is what you will build 😎

$ python emoji.py smiling
Grinning Face With Smiling Eyes                              | 😁
Smiling Face With Open Mouth                                 | 😃
Smiling Face With Open Mouth And Smiling Eyes                | 😄
Smiling Face With Open Mouth And Cold Sweat                  | 😅
Smiling Face With Open Mouth And Tightly-Closed Eyes         | 😆
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