How to create an issue comment on a pull request?

Question

According to this question a PR is just an issue with some things on top.

How to get the associated issue id?

I just saw issue_url as attribute for the pull request object. Also, PR has the method create_review_comment but no method create_issue_comment.

How would such a method look like?

How to create an issue comment in the Pull Request?

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 13 '15 at 11:29

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I was able to do it by getting the issue from the PR number. Indeed, in github a "hidden" issue is created every time you create a pull request.

So the following code worked:

gh = ... # Connection
repo = gh.repository(user, repo_name)
pr = repo.create_pull(description, base, from_branch, detailed)
issue = repo.issue(pr.number)
issue.create_comment(comment)

One could also use other ways to get the issue from PR number.

Not sure if there is any way more straightforward than this

answered Jul 13 '15 at 11:29

mvallebr

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I've created two issues for this on the github3.py bug tracker. Thanks providing insight into this use case. – Ian Stapleton Cordasco Jul 13 '15 at 20:09
If you're interested in contributing, let me know. I'm happy to provide guidance and early feedback – Ian Stapleton Cordasco Jul 14 '15 at 13:45
I would be glad in submitting some pull requests if you are willing to accept then, it might make things more agile to me – mvallebr Jul 15 '15 at 09:08
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I released 1.0.0a2 yesterday. Most of the changes were contributed by people who are not me. ;) – Ian Stapleton Cordasco Jul 15 '15 at 11:55
I had to do: `issue = repo.get_issue(pr.number)` – Donn Lee Jun 15 '21 at 22:19

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 25 '19 at 16:02

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This works for me with current pygithub:

from github import Github

g = Github(GITHUB_TOKEN)
repo_name = 'Org/repo'
repo = g.get_repo(repo_name)
pr = repo.get_pull(PR_NUMBER)
pr.create_issue_comment('test')

answered Apr 25 '19 at 16:02

user582175

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How to create an issue comment on a pull request?

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