TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'str' and 'int' using fastq-dump

Question

[a.krassnig]

Hey,

I'm trying to download fastq-data from the SRA using dms_tools2 and fastqFromSRA. Therefore I tried following the instruction from

dms_Example

Everything works out just fine, until it reaches the point, where it should download from SRA. Here I get the error:

TypeError: '<' not supported between instances of 'str' and 'int'

from the line

dms_tools2.sra.fastqFromSRA(samples, "fastq-dump", fastqdir, aspera=None,)

Also it seems to find the fastq-dump from the SRAToolkit.

I hope someone can give me an Idea, on how to solve this.

Thank you!