gistfile1.txt

import praw
from praw.models import MoreComments


# go through the comment tree and find all the top level MoreComments objects
def gather_more_comments(submission):
	top_level_comment_count = 0
	more_comments = []
	for top_level_comment in submission.comments:
		if isinstance(top_level_comment, MoreComments):
			more_comments.append(top_level_comment)
		else:
			top_level_comment_count += 1

	print(f"Comments: {top_level_comment_count}, MoreComments objects: {len(more_comments)}")
	return more_comments


reddit = praw.Reddit(
    client_id="97RnjxHE3NV56oXM6ZlhIA",
    client_secret="o8DBEGhjB097K6uRejKDdq1VX3hgWA",
    user_agent="testscript",
)

print("Start...")

submission = reddit.submission(url="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/197rmz0/those_who_got_a_useless_degree_what_do_you_do_now")
# count the number of API requests we've made
count_requests = 1

# get the initial MoreComments list
more_comments = gather_more_comments(submission)
# loop until the list is empty, ie, there are no top level MoreComments objects left
while more_comments:
	# grab the first one, just in case there's more than one for some reason
	more_comment = more_comments.pop()

	# call the fetch method to get all the comments from the API
	new_comments = more_comment.comments(update=False)

	count_requests += 1

	# insert all new comments into the tree
	for comment in new_comments:
		if isinstance(comment, MoreComments) and comment.parent_id.startswith('t1_'):
			continue
		submission.comments._insert_comment(comment)

	# remove this MoreComments item from the tree
	submission.comments._comments.remove(more_comment)

	# iterate through the top level tree again to find the new MoreComments object
	more_comments = gather_more_comments(submission)

print(f"Done in {count_requests} requests")


for top_level_comment in submission.comments.list():
    if type(top_level_comment) is not MoreComments:
       print(top_level_comment.body)
       print("----")