How to change the owner with Google Drive API v3 in Python?

Question

I'm trying to change the owner with Google Drive API by updating the permissions:

permissions = drive_api.files().get(fileId=ssId, fields='permissions').execute()['permissions']

[{'displayName': 'account_name',
  'emailAddress': 'account_email',
  'id': 'id1',
  'role': 'writer',
  'type': 'user'},
 {'displayName': 'api_email',
  'emailAddress': 'api_email',
  'id': 'id2',
  'role': 'owner',
  'type': 'user'}]

I take my account permission id:

for permission in permissions:
  if permission['emailAddress'] == 'account_email':
    permissionId = permission['id']
    break

Take the body:

body = drive_api.permissions().get(fileId=ssId, permissionId=permissionId).execute()

{'id': 'id1',
 'kind': 'drive#permission',
 'role': 'writer',
 'type': 'user'}

Change the role:

body['role'] = 'owner'

And do the update:

drive_api.permissions().update(fileId=ssId, permissionId=permissionId, body=body, transferOwnership=True).execute()

But get an error:

The resource body includes fields which are not directly writable

Answer 1

I changed this thing and it started working:

body = {
    'id': permissionId,
    'role': 'owner',
}

Shame on Google for this horrible Drive API documentation