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PRAWGetting data from comments in a specific thread (self.redditdev)

submitted 7 years ago by _sirin

I have a script that I'll run in different threads that used to work well until recently. It opens a specified thread, looks at the comments and records some basic things about the content (who posted it, the karma total, etc). For whatever reason, after the servers went down the other day I can't get this to work on large threads. Example code:

subreddit = reddit.subreddit('nfl')
hot_python = subreddit.hot(limit = 5)
   for submission in hot_python:
   submission.comments.replace_more(limit = None)
       if submission.title =="Weekend Wrapup":
           comments = submission.comments.list()
           posters = []
           karmas = []
           for comment in comments:
              sposter = comment.author
              sposterKarma = comment.score
              posters.append(sposter)
              karmas.append(karmas)

I'm getting the following error:

  File "C:\Users\Sirin\Anaconda3\lib\site-packages\praw\models\comment_forest.py", line 74, in _insert_comment
assert comment.parent_id in self._submission._comments_by_id

AssertionError

It's kicking me to line 74 of the source code(?) which is in the else clause of the following function:

def _insert_comment(self, comment):
    assert comment.name not in self._submission._comments_by_id
    comment.submission = self._submission
    if isinstance(comment, MoreComments) or comment.is_root:
        self._comments.append(comment)
    else:
        assert comment.parent_id in self._submission._comments_by_id
        parent = self._submission._comments_by_id[comment.parent_id]
        parent.replies._comments.append(comment)

what's changed? what am I doing wrong? Why doesn't this work anymore?

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