You still have this problem in the "list of Unicode code points" world, since many multi-code-point emoji sequences appear to users as a single character, but s

You still have this problem in the "list of Unicode code points" world, since many multi-code-point emoji sequences appear to users as a single character, but start and end with code points that are valid emojis on their own. Python 3 believes that the string "[Saint Lucia flag emoji][Andorra flag emoji]" contains a Canada flag emoji.