Post author flair disappears from post after accessing post.comments

Issue Description

As also reported by other user on reddit.

When accessing post.comment on a post from subreddit.new() (for example by doing post.comments.replace_more() or post.comments.list()) the post.author_flair_* properties are cleared

Example code (reddit is a Reddit instance from apraw.Reddit()):

# Get post with flair set
post = [post for post in reddit.subreddit("mechmarket").new() if post.author_flair_css_class is not None][0]
print(post.author_flair_css_class)  # Prints i-[value]
post.comments.list()  # Get list of comments, result not important
print(post.author_flair_css_class)  # Prints None

System Information

PRAW Version: 5.0.1 (also reported on 5.4.0) Python Version: 2.7.12 Operating System: Ubuntu 16.04

[bboe]

I’m not going to merge the fix in just yet, as I’d like to wait for confirmation from Reddit that this is intended behavior, or hopefully that it is a bug they will resolve, in which case there is no need for the fix.

[jarhill0]

It seems that Reddit has resolved this on their end. I just tested:

In [18]: # Get post with flair set
    ...: post = [post for post in reddit.subreddit("mechmarket").new() if post.author_flair_css_class is not None][0]
    ...: print(post.author_flair_css_class)  # Prints i-[value]
    ...: post.comments.list()  # Get list of comments, result not important
    ...: print(post.author_flair_css_class)  # Prints None
    ...: 
i-1
i-1