gdata.docs.client.DocsClient - google-api

Question

I have the following code, reads oauth2 token form file, then try's to perform a doc's list query to find a specific spreadsheet that I want to copy, however no matter what I try the code either errors out or returns with an object containing no document data.
I am using gdata.docs.client.DocsClient which as far as I can tell is version 3 of the API
def CreateClient():
"""Create a Documents List Client."""
client = gdata.docs.client.DocsClient(source=config.APP_NAME)
client.http_client.debug = config.DEBUG
# Authenticate the user with CLientLogin, OAuth, or AuthSub.
if os.path.exists(config.CONFIG_FILE):
f = open(config.CONFIG_FILE)
tok = pickle.load(f)
f.close()
client.auth_token = tok.auth_token
return client
1st query attempt
def get_doc():
new_api_query = gdata.docs.client.DocsQuery(title='RichSheet', title_exact=True, show_collections=True)
d = client.GetResources(q = new_api_query)
this fails with the following stack trace
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Users/richard/PycharmProjects/reportone/make_my_report.py", line 83, in <module>
get_doc()
File "/Users/richard/PycharmProjects/reportone/make_my_report.py", line 57, in get_doc
d = client.GetResources(q = new_api_query)
File "/Users/richard/PycharmProjects/reportone/gdata/docs/client.py", line 151, in get_resources
**kwargs)
File "/Users/richard/PycharmProjects/reportone/gdata/client.py", line 640, in get_feed
**kwargs)
File "/Users/richard/PycharmProjects/reportone/gdata/docs/client.py", line 66, in request
return super(DocsClient, self).request(method=method, uri=uri, **kwargs)
File "/Users/richard/PycharmProjects/reportone/gdata/client.py", line 267, in request
uri=uri, auth_token=auth_token, http_request=http_request, **kwargs)
File "/Users/richard/PycharmProjects/reportone/atom/client.py", line 115, in request
self.auth_token.modify_request(http_request)
File "/Users/richard/PycharmProjects/reportone/gdata/gauth.py", line 1047, in modify_request
token_secret=self.token_secret, verifier=self.verifier)
File "/Users/richard/PycharmProjects/reportone/gdata/gauth.py", line 668, in generate_hmac_signature
next, token, verifier=verifier)
File "/Users/richard/PycharmProjects/reportone/gdata/gauth.py", line 629, in build_oauth_base_string
urllib.quote(params[key], safe='~')))
File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 1266, in quote
if not s.rstrip(safe):
AttributeError: 'bool' object has no attribute 'rstrip'
Process finished with exit code 1
then my second attempt
def get_doc():
other = gdata.docs.service.DocumentQuery(text_query='RichSheet')
d = client.GetResources(q = other)
this returns an ResourceFeed object, but has no content. I have been through the source code for these function but thing are not any obvious.
Have i missed something ? or should i go back to version 2 of the api ?