[On fresh install] ImportError: cannot import name 'UNICODE_EMOJI' from 'emoji'

[thamin-i]

Hi !

When I install streamdeckfs on a brand new virtual environment i get the error below:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/tmp/venv/bin/streamdeckfs", line 5, in <module>
    from streamdeckfs.commands import main
  File "/tmp/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/streamdeckfs/commands/__init__.py", line 17, in <module>
    from .make_dirs import make_dirs  # noqa: F401
  File "/tmp/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/streamdeckfs/commands/make_dirs.py", line 14, in <module>
    from ..entities import Key, Page
  File "/tmp/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/streamdeckfs/entities/__init__.py", line 41, in <module>
    from .text import KeyTextLine
  File "/tmp/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/streamdeckfs/entities/text.py", line 14, in <module>
    from emoji import UNICODE_EMOJI, emojize
ImportError: cannot import name 'UNICODE_EMOJI' from 'emoji' (/tmp/venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/emoji/__init__.py)

It seems that the emoji library made a major change in their 2.0.0 version and that streamdeckfs needs to install a version below.
Indeed, after installing emoji==1.7.0 manually, this error disappeared.

Could we force emoji<2.0.0 on the setup.cfg file ?

[edit] It should be fixed if we merge the #60 pull request

[davekempe]

on debian 11 this worked for me:

pip3 install emoji==1.7
Collecting emoji==1.7
  Downloading emoji-1.7.0.tar.gz (175 kB)
     |################################| 175 kB 16.4 MB/s 
Building wheels for collected packages: emoji
  Building wheel for emoji (setup.py) ... done
  Created wheel for emoji: filename=emoji-1.7.0-py3-none-any.whl size=171029 sha256=8e57e39942a7882aadac4c895331c72257b6ac864dc8b63cbe22292881a69fb1
  Stored in directory: /root/.cache/pip/wheels/fa/7a/e9/22dd0515e1bad255e51663ee513a2fa839c95934c5fc301090
Successfully built emoji
Installing collected packages: emoji
  Attempting uninstall: emoji
    Found existing installation: emoji 2.2.0
    Uninstalling emoji-2.2.0:
      Successfully uninstalled emoji-2.2.0
Successfully installed emoji-1.7.0