CL downloads xls instead of csv

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. os.system('google docs get \"This file\" --format csv /latex')
2. the file downloaded is an xls file with the extension csv, instead of a csv 
file

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
This worked great for two years until yesterday - some sort of change at Google 
tied to those new forms? Dunno.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? What
version of gdata-python-client (aka python-gdata)?
OSX Mountain Lion; 0.9.13 cl; 2.0.17 gdata (I think - not the most recent, but 
the one that works with cl)

Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by cty.jga...@gmail.com on 1 May 2014 at 3:40

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I may have figured out a piece of the puzzle. GoogleCL is still downloading 
some sheets correctly, but the one that it isn't getting is one of the new 
format sheets, which have different URLs 
(https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ instead of the older 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=). It seems that there's an issue 
in there somewhere. It does download the sheet still, but botches the xls->csv 
conversion. 

I don't know what I'll do if CL isn't supported any longer - rewrite the whole 
thing as a web app? Not appealing.

Original comment by cty.jga...@gmail.com on 14 May 2014 at 1:20

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I've hit this. Seems to be the 'new' Google sheets causing the problem. Bit of 
a killer.

Original comment by lensc...@gmail.com on 30 Jun 2014 at 8:28

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Glad to know that other folks are still looking at CL :) I ended up dropping it 
and using gdata spreadsheet services, because it looks like there's nobody 
actively developing CL at this point.

Original comment by joshuaga...@gmail.com on 1 Jul 2014 at 2:10

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