How to convert emoji to html code?

Question

Python

I have a simple bot that logs each message and writes it to a ".txt" notepad, but when a person sends an emoji, then there is an encoding problem.

'charmap' codec can't encode character '\U0001f479' in position 143: character maps to <undefined>

I thought, why not write these emoji in notepad as html code("& #xxx;"), which vk successfully converts, but I have no idea how this can be implemented.

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