How to upload pdf and pptx files to google docs via the gdata python client?

Question

I'm using the gdata python client for the google docs api for a project. I use oauth authentication and all the dance, and have successfully uploaded .doc, .xls and every file type in Their FAQ. but I cannot seem to upload pdf files, even though is right there, listed on the supported filetypes. I tried with the latest version of gdata (released last week) to no avail. Also, I'd like to be able to upload .pptx files, though I realize that that extension is not supported.

Has anybody out there succesfully uploaded a pdf file to google docs via their gdata python client?

Answer 1

Done. First did this http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=591#c77

but now I was getting a bad request error "invalid request uri". So I then discovered in another google thread that the uri for the v3.0 apis was no longer http://docs.google.com/feeds/folders/private/full/<resource-id> but http://docs.google.com/feeds/default/private/full/<resource-id>/contents

Hacked my copy of gdata to replace folders with default and append /contents and voilà, now it worked for pdfs and all the other supported stuff.

Haven't solved the pptx issue, though...