TypeError during Push and Pull causes sync to fail (TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'dict' and 'float')

[Sarthak Gupta]

$ drive push
checking for changes in 'myFolderName' ....
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/bin/drive", line 10, in
sys.exit(cli())
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 764, in call
return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 717, in main
rv = self.invoke(ctx)
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1137, in invoke
return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 956, in invoke
return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 555, in invoke
return callback(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/drive_cli/actions.py", line 311, in push
utils.push_content(cwd, fid)
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/drive_cli/utils.py", line 487, in push_content
push_content(child_cwd, child_id)
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/drive_cli/utils.py", line 494, in push_content
if(push_needed(drive_lis[item], item_path)):
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/drive_cli/utils.py", line 173, in push_needed
if sync_time < local_time:
TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'dict' and 'float'

$ drive pull
checking for changes in 'myFolderName' ....
Preparing: myFilename.ext for download
downloading file [####################################] 100%
completed download of myFilename.ext
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/bin/drive", line 10, in
sys.exit(cli())
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 764, in call
return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 717, in main
rv = self.invoke(ctx)
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 1137, in invoke
return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 956, in invoke
return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/click/core.py", line 555, in invoke
return callback(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/drive_cli/actions.py", line 290, in pull
utils.pull_content(cwd, fid)
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/drive_cli/utils.py", line 422, in pull_content
if((not os.path.exists(dir_name)) or write_needed(dir_name, item)):
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/drive_cli/utils.py", line 154, in write_needed
if(sync_time < drive_time):
TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'dict' and 'float'

[Dhruvil Shah]

Can you please be more specific on how to recreate this error??

[Sarthak Gupta]

To be honest, it works sometimes, and sometimes it doesn't. When doing a simple drive push or drive pull, it works till some files, and then crashed giving the above error