Split chars of a string

[rsalmei]

Hey man, I'm the author of alive-progress. I'm struggling to correctly support emojis in there (rsalmei/alive-progress#19), and I think this project could help me.

Please, how could I split the chars of a string, including emojis of all kinds?

For example:

In [17]: [(x, hex(ord(x)), unicodedata.east_asian_width(x)) for x in 'a👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩a']
Out[17]:
[('a', '0x61', 'Na'),
 ('👩', '0x1f469', 'W'),
 ('\u200d', '0x200d', 'N'),
 ('❤', '0x2764', 'N'),
 ('️', '0xfe0f', 'A'),
 ('\u200d', '0x200d', 'N'),
 ('💋', '0x1f48b', 'W'),
 ('\u200d', '0x200d', 'N'),
 ('👩', '0x1f469', 'W'),
 ('a', '0x61', 'Na')]

How could I correctly detect the three chars in this string using your code?

Update: I've seen there's a regexp function, but that does not help yet:

In [4]: emoji.get_emoji_regexp().split('asd😀►✧☘️❤️ok')
Out[4]: ['asd', '😀', '►✧', '☘️', '', '❤️', 'ok']

It still doesn't split the 'asd' and '►✧' and 'ok' strings, and I cannot seem to diferentiate them from the other grapheme clusters. (github doesn't correctly show ☘️ and ❤️ inside code blocks, which are the glyph variants, not the text ones.