Making IDLE3 ignore non-BMP characters instead of throwing an exception?

[Adam Funk]

I'm using IDLE 3 (with python 3.5.2) to work interactively with
Twitter data, which of course contains emojis.  Whenever the running
program tries to print the text of a tweet with an emoji, it barfs
this & stops running:

  UnicodeEncodeError: 'UCS-2' codec can't encode characters in
  position 102-102: Non-BMP character not supported in Tk

Is there any way to set IDLE to ignore these characters (either drop
them or replace them with something else) instead of throwing the
exception?

If not, what's the best way to strip them out of the string before
printing?

Thanks,
Adam