append_row INVALID_ARGUMENT when appending more than one item at a time

Hi! I found an error when you append_row to a worksheet with a list with length > 1, IF the worksheet has a name with a colon : in it - other characters could cause this too, haven’t tested comprehensively. I think this might be because gspread only expects one colon - as part of the error message, I got Requested writing within range [':'!A3], but tried writing to column [B], even though I requested writing to a range larger than the one denoted. Or it might be because in order to denote a range, sheet name and colons are used in conjunction (e.g. somesheet!A1:C1), but when a colon is used, special formatting must be used (e.g. '0:00'!A1:C1), and this messes with gspread’s parsing. Or something else.

Environment info

Operating System: macOS 10.13.2 Python version: 3.6.5 gspread version: 3.0.0

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a worksheet with a name containing the colon character :
2. Get your pointer to the worksheet, e.g. ws
3. Run ws.append_row(['some', 'values'])

Stack trace or other output that would be helpful

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/Users/owner/anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages/gspread/models.py", line 702, in append_row
    return self.spreadsheet.values_append(self.title, params, body)
  File "/Users/owner/anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages/gspread/models.py", line 100, in values_append
    r = self.client.request('post', url, params=params, json=body)
  File "/Users/owner/anaconda/lib/python3.6/site-packages/gspread/client.py", line 79, in request
    raise APIError(response)
gspread.exceptions.APIError: {
  "error": {
    "code": 400,
    "message": "Requested writing within range [':'!A3], but tried writing to column [B]",
    "status": "INVALID_ARGUMENT"
  }
}

[lavigne958]

Hi, yes it is, but this is not a bug, because the method spreadsheet.values_update is not intended to be used directly by a user. the spreadsheet and worksheet object have dedicated methods for all operations. All methods will use the function utils.absolute_range_name that will prevent this issue.

If someone needs/wants to use directly the method, then they must cover the range name themselves (like other method do, using utils.absolute_range_name function).

[lavigne958]

This has been fixed. Tried to append a row to a sheet containing a semicolon : in its name and it works.

Closing this issue.