The API call you're using expects a SHA hash not a named identifier. This is how to get information for a named tag as you probably want:

from github import Github

g = Github('thar_be_dragons_here')
repo = g.get_repo('telefonicaid/fiware-orion')
tag = next((x for x in repo.get_tags() if x.name == '3.8.0'))

print(tag)

Which gives:

Tag(name="3.8.0", commit=Commit(sha="18d3634afeb366c62af90b9219c5ffac8e894cad"))

From there you can use the commit object or the SHA it contains to poke around further. You'll also need the token because GitHub needs to know the permissions scope of what your code should be doing (repo scope in this case).

Having the same problem with importing Auth.

The old approach still works, even though I have no idea which approach is better.

from github import Github

access_token = "your GH access token" 

gh = Github(access_token)

for repo in gh.get_user().get_repos():
    print(repo.name)

I put the access token as a string in the code for simplicity. In my actual code, I am using a config file to import the token.

Okay, first of all, a Minimal Reproducible Example for your question is:

import github

gh = github.Github()
repo = gh.get_repo('PyGithub/PyGithub')
for issue in repo.get_issues():
    comments = issue.get_issue_comments()

which results in:

AttributeError: 'Issue' object has no attribute 'get_issue_comments'

How to solve this?

Python is literally telling you that the Issue object does not have a method (or any attribute, for that matter) called get_issue_comments. Apparently you're calling the wrong method.

So how can you know which methods are available? I agree the documentation is (at the time of writing) quite limited. You have a number of other options:

Using help()

For any Python object (module, class, method, ...) that has a proper docstring, the built-in help() function is really very helpful ;-)

issue = repo.get_issues()[0]
help(issue)

This will print:

Help on Issue in module github.Issue object:

class Issue(github.GithubObject.CompletableGithubObject)
 |  Issue(requester, headers, attributes, completed)
 |
 |  This class represents Issues. The reference can be found here https://developer.github.com/v3/issues/
 |
 |  Method resolution order:
 |      Issue
 |      github.GithubObject.CompletableGithubObject
 |      github.GithubObject.GithubObject
 |      builtins.object
 |
 |  Methods defined here:
 |
 |  __repr__(self)
 |      Return repr(self).
 |
...
 |
 |  get_comments(self, since=NotSet)
 |      :calls: `GET /repos/:owner/:repo/issues/:number/comments <http://developer.github.com/v3/issues/comments>`_
 |      :param since: datetime.datetime format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ
 |      :rtype: :class:`github.PaginatedList.PaginatedList` of :class:`github.IssueComment.IssueComment`
 |
...

As you can see, the class is well documented and apparently it contains a method 'get_comments', which you can use.

Using dir()

You can also see which attributes (such as methods) an object contains, using the built-in function dir():

issue = repo.get_issues()[0]
print(dir(issue))  # in an interactive shell you don't have to print()

This will print:

['CHECK_AFTER_INIT_FLAG', '_CompletableGithubObject__complete', '_CompletableGithubObject__completed', '_GithubObject__makeSimpleAttribute', '_GithubObject__makeSimpleListAttribute', '_GithubObject__makeTransformedAttribute', '__class__', '__delattr__', '__dict__', '__dir__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__format__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__init_subclass__', '__le__', '__lt__', '__module__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__subclasshook__', '__weakref__', '_assignee', '_assignees', '_body', '_closed_at', '_closed_by', '_comments', '_comments_url', '_completeIfNeeded', '_completeIfNotSet', '_created_at', '_events_url', '_headers', '_html_url', '_id', '_identity', '_initAttributes', '_labels', '_labels_url', '_locked', '_makeBoolAttribute', '_makeClassAttribute', '_makeDatetimeAttribute', '_makeDictAttribute', '_makeDictOfStringsToClassesAttribute', '_makeIntAttribute', '_makeListOfClassesAttribute', '_makeListOfDictsAttribute', '_makeListOfIntsAttribute', '_makeListOfListOfStringsAttribute', '_makeListOfStringsAttribute', '_makeStringAttribute', '_makeTimestampAttribute', '_milestone', '_number', '_parentUrl', '_pull_request', '_rawData', '_repository', '_requester', '_state', '_storeAndUseAttributes', '_title', '_updated_at', '_url', '_useAttributes', '_user', 'active_lock_reason', 'add_to_assignees', 'add_to_labels', 'as_pull_request', 'assignee', 'assignees', 'body', 'closed_at', 'closed_by', 'comments', 'comments_url', 'create_comment', 'create_reaction', 'created_at', 'delete_labels', 'edit', 'etag', 'events_url', 'get__repr__', 'get_comment', 'get_comments', 'get_events', 'get_labels', 'get_reactions', 'html_url', 'id', 'labels', 'labels_url', 'last_modified', 'lock', 'locked', 'milestone', 'number', 'pull_request', 'raw_data', 'raw_headers', 'remove_from_assignees', 'remove_from_labels', 'repository', 'setCheckAfterInitFlag', 'set_labels', 'state', 'title', 'unlock', 'update', 'updated_at', 'url', 'user']

Here you will also see that it does not include a name 'get_issue_comments', but that it does contain a name 'get_comments'.

Solution

Change the following line:

issue_dict['comments'] = [comment for comment in issue.get_issue_comments()]

to:

issue_dict['comments'] = [comment for comment in issue.get_comments()]

I have created a small set of code for this. And it worked. Sharing it here, so others can get benefit from it.

Sample code:

This code will upload a file/replace the existing file.

Local file path: /tmp/file.txt

Github folder name: folder1/

from github import Github
g = Github("username", "password")

repo = g.get_user().get_repo(GITHUB_REPO)
all_files = []
contents = repo.get_contents("")
while contents:
    file_content = contents.pop(0)
    if file_content.type == "dir":
        contents.extend(repo.get_contents(file_content.path))
    else:
        file = file_content
        all_files.append(str(file).replace('ContentFile(path="','').replace('")',''))

with open('/tmp/file.txt', 'r') as file:
    content = file.read()

# Upload to github
git_prefix = 'folder1/'
git_file = git_prefix + 'file.txt'
if git_file in all_files:
    contents = repo.get_contents(git_file)
    repo.update_file(contents.path, "committing files", content, contents.sha, branch="master")
    print(git_file + ' UPDATED')
else:
    repo.create_file(git_file, "committing files", content, branch="master")
    print(git_file + ' CREATED')

This question is also related to this.

The solution to my question is the following

g = Github(token)
user = g.get_user()
repo = user.create_repo(full_name)