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I'm trying to use the Python API (v 8.5.0) from Pythonista on iOS (latest, on iPad Pro), and when I try to invoke any commands on the dbx object returned from dropbox.Dropbox('TOKEN'), e.g. files_upload, I get the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/containers/Bundle/Application/5EF5E379-FBDE-4C83-BE7B-D5D77464A370/Pythonista3.app/Frameworks/Py3Kit.framework/pylib/site-packages/urllib3/util/timeout.py", line 125, in _validate_timeout float(value) TypeError: float() argument must be a string or a number, not 'Timeout' During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/private/var/mobile/Containers/Shared/AppGroup/E4C7B551-D492-40EB-A6E8-D6FA77EB9421/Pythonista3/Documents/mobile_blogger/mobile_blogger.py", line 235, in <module> main() File "/private/var/mobile/Containers/Shared/AppGroup/E4C7B551-D492-40EB-A6E8-D6FA77EB9421/Pythonista3/Documents/mobile_blogger/mobile_blogger.py", line 228, in main mb.sync_to_dropbox(results['filename'], results['draft'], file) File "/private/var/mobile/Containers/Shared/AppGroup/E4C7B551-D492-40EB-A6E8-D6FA77EB9421/Pythonista3/Documents/mobile_blogger/mobile_blogger.py", line 134, in sync_to_dropbox self._dbx.files_upload(output, full_path) File "/private/var/mobile/Containers/Shared/AppGroup/E4C7B551-D492-40EB-A6E8-D6FA77EB9421/Pythonista3/Documents/site-packages/dropbox/base.py", line 2076, in files_upload f, File "/private/var/mobile/Containers/Shared/AppGroup/E4C7B551-D492-40EB-A6E8-D6FA77EB9421/Pythonista3/Documents/site-packages/dropbox/dropbox.py", line 234, in request timeout=timeout) File "/private/var/mobile/Containers/Shared/AppGroup/E4C7B551-D492-40EB-A6E8-D6FA77EB9421/Pythonista3/Documents/site-packages/dropbox/dropbox.py", line 325, in request_json_string_with_retry timeout=timeout) File "/private/var/mobile/Containers/Shared/AppGroup/E4C7B551-D492-40EB-A6E8-D6FA77EB9421/Pythonista3/Documents/site-packages/dropbox/dropbox.py", line 409, in request_json_string timeout=timeout, File "/var/containers/Bundle/Application/5EF5E379-FBDE-4C83-BE7B-D5D77464A370/Pythonista3.app/Frameworks/Py3Kit.framework/pylib/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 512, in post return self.request('POST', url, data=data, json=json, **kwargs) File "/var/containers/Bundle/Application/5EF5E379-FBDE-4C83-BE7B-D5D77464A370/Pythonista3.app/Frameworks/Py3Kit.framework/pylib/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 469, in request resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs) File "/var/containers/Bundle/Application/5EF5E379-FBDE-4C83-BE7B-D5D77464A370/Pythonista3.app/Frameworks/Py3Kit.framework/pylib/site-packages/requests/sessions.py", line 577, in send r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs) File "/var/containers/Bundle/Application/5EF5E379-FBDE-4C83-BE7B-D5D77464A370/Pythonista3.app/Frameworks/Py3Kit.framework/pylib/site-packages/requests/adapters.py", line 377, in send timeout=timeout File "/var/containers/Bundle/Application/5EF5E379-FBDE-4C83-BE7B-D5D77464A370/Pythonista3.app/Frameworks/Py3Kit.framework/pylib/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 547, in urlopen timeout_obj = self._get_timeout(timeout) File "/var/containers/Bundle/Application/5EF5E379-FBDE-4C83-BE7B-D5D77464A370/Pythonista3.app/Frameworks/Py3Kit.framework/pylib/site-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 303, in _get_timeout return Timeout.from_float(timeout) File "/var/containers/Bundle/Application/5EF5E379-FBDE-4C83-BE7B-D5D77464A370/Pythonista3.app/Frameworks/Py3Kit.framework/pylib/site-packages/urllib3/util/timeout.py", line 155, in from_float return Timeout(read=timeout, connect=timeout) File "/var/containers/Bundle/Application/5EF5E379-FBDE-4C83-BE7B-D5D77464A370/Pythonista3.app/Frameworks/Py3Kit.framework/pylib/site-packages/urllib3/util/timeout.py", line 98, in __init__ self._connect = self._validate_timeout(connect, 'connect') File "/var/containers/Bundle/Application/5EF5E379-FBDE-4C83-BE7B-D5D77464A370/Pythonista3.app/Frameworks/Py3Kit.framework/pylib/site-packages/urllib3/util/timeout.py", line 128, in _validate_timeout "int or float." % (name, value)) ValueError: Timeout value connect was Timeout(connect=30, read=30, total=None), but it must be an int or float.
I'm using the requests library (2.18.4), so it's not that... Running the same calls from desktop doesn't produce the above error.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
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