AttributeError: 'Redditor' object has no attribute 'icon_img' about praw HOT 5 CLOSED

What I mean by that is for example, in comments, some attributes are returned when you get the comment from a submission vs initializing them directly (which uses a different endpoint when you try and access the attribute).

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And is there any immediate fix?

There is not. It is the nature of working with Reddit's API.

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This is a side effect of Reddit's api returning inconsistent fields depending on which endpoint you fetched the object from. This is the reason for the paragraph/note before every attributes table saying the table is typical attributes and are subject to change without warning

Unfortunately this isn't a bug with PRAW that we are able to change.

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What does " depending on which endpoint you fetched the object from" mean?

And is there any immediate fix?

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I just wanted to clarify, this wasn't a bug but a blunder on my part. The reason I was getting this error was becasuse that reddit user's account had been deactived. icon_img works just fine with active users.

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