ability to "shift" emoji

[lsmith77]

I mentioned my use case already here.

Essentially I am modifying emoji to generate alternatives. But there are some challenges.

f.e. some times there is a person/people option (f.e. 🧑‍🤝‍🧑), sometime there isn't (f.e. 🧑‍🚒). also sometimes there are skin tone options and sometimes not.

as such it would be nice to have easy access to such meta data (ie. what alternative variations exists) and ideally even a function to create such variations.

metadata = emoji.get_metadata("🧑‍🤝‍🧑")
if metadata.supports_skin_tone:
  ...

print(emoji.create_emoji(metadata, remove_skin_tone=True)
print(emoji.create_emoji(metadata, skin_tone='dark')
# gender='person' would use person/child if supported by the emoji, otherwise simply swap gender (ie. `man` to `women`, `girl` to `boy` etc)
print(emoji.create_emoji(metadata, gender='person')

Eventually it would be sweet to then also support headscarf, turban etc.

[cvzi]

I had started to work on it: I generated a list of all the variations that are "recommended by unicode.org": https://gist.github.com/cvzi/02e78ad0a8671e2cb5e9e147e825a08b

[lsmith77]

about the metadata idea, I just found emoji.EMOJI_DATA which ideally could be expanded.