gdocs

And remain sane and alive ------------------------------------+++

Here's the deal, the Google docs API is really neat, if you can dance oauth. But, by allowing to do all that crazy stuff with documents is bound to be really complicated -just read that xml, is like something only robots should ever gaze at!. But the nice guys over at google have developed some client libraries, and one of those is the gdata python client library. Which combines all that power with the python inherent simplicity.

But there's a caveat: there's so much stuff that the documentation is sometimes outdated or just plain wrong, as is the case with pdf uploads via the version 1.0 of the API. They would swear that you can upload pdf files. But no, you can't, not with old versions of the client nor with the latest release (at least as of the writing of this post, the version 2.0.11).

So, let's just show our users a message that says "oops, bummer, no can do".

Or not.