Upcoming Dropbox changes

[Wylem]

As stated here: https://dropbox.tech/developers/api-server-certificate-changes

I admit I don't fully understand the implications of this change - is it going to be an issue for those of us using Dropbox with Pythonista?

[Wylem]

Welp, I did search the forums for this particular issue, but I missed the big news about the upcoming update to Python 3.13. That's fantastic! I imagine the Dropbox SDK will be updated to 12.0.2 in the process?

[Wylem]

Is there any news on the Pythonista update?

I have an app that depends on Dropbox for backups, which will apparently stop working on Jan 1. Is there any way I can update the Dropbox package that Pythonista uses myself?

[salabim]

I am also waiting for the new version of Pythonista.

But, the good news for you is that you can just install the latest version of Dropbox with Stash/pip.

[Wylem]

Thanks. Is there a guide to using Stash to installing packages? I installed it, but calling pip install dropbox raises an exception:
stash: <class 'ValueError'>: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''

[salabim]

This is a recent problem with installing dropbox (only?) with stash.
I asked ChatGPT for solutions, but they don't seem to work.

I would instal dropbox on a desktop and then manually transfer the site-packages dropbox folder to the Python modules/site-packages (user) folder.
As the dropbox module is Python-only that should work.

[salabim]

Further to my reply, I think you have to do the same for the ply and stone packages.