Trouble parsing comments with praw
Question: I'm trying to scan a particular subreddit to see the how many times a comment
appears in the top submissions.

I haven't been able to get any indication that it is actually reading the
message, as it won't print the body of the message at all. _Note:_ sr =
subreddit phrase = phrase that's being looked for

I'm still new to praw and python (only picked it up in the last hour) but I've
had a fair amount of experience in c.

Any help would be appreciated.

    
    
        submissions = r.get_subreddit(sr).get_top(limit=1)
        for submission in submissions:
            comments = praw.helpers.flatten_tree(submission.replace_more_comments(limit=None, threshold=0))
            for comment in comments:
                print(comment.body.lower())
                if comment.id not in already_done:
                    if phrase in comment.body.lower():
                        phrase_counter = phrase_counter + 1
    


Answer: The `Submission.replace_more_comments` return a list of the `MoreComment`
objects that were _NOT_ replaced. So if you're calling it with `limit=None`
and `threshold=0` then it will return an empty list. See the
[`replace_more_comments`](https://praw.readthedocs.org/en/latest/pages/code_overview.html#praw.objects.Submission.replace_more_comments)
docstring. Here's a full example of how to use both `replace_more_comments`
and `flatten_tree`. For more information see the [comment
parsing](https://praw.readthedocs.org/en/latest/pages/comment_parsing.html)
page in our documentation.

    
    
    import praw
    
    r = praw.Reddit(UNIQUE_AND_DESCRIPTIVE_USERAGENT_CONTAINING_YOUR_REDDIT_USERNAME)
    subreddit = r.get_subreddit('python')
    submissions = subreddit.get_top(limit=1)
    for submission in submissions:
        submission.replace_more_comments(limit=None, threshold=0)
        flat_comments = praw.helpers.flatten_tree(submission.comments)
        for comment in flat_comments:
            print(comment.body)
    

