I'm experiencing an issue where my program appears to freeze when executing the post_comments_to_lemmy function. This function fetches comments from the GitHub API and posts them to a Lemmy instance. However, it seems that there might be a potential infinite loop within the function that causes the program to hang indefinitely.

I've noticed that the code includes a check within the for loop that skips the iteration if comment_dict is an instance of a string (str). However, if all the comment_dict objects are strings, the loop may continue indefinitely, resulting in the program appearing to freeze.

I'm looking for guidance on how to fix this issue and prevent the program from freezing.

For more context here is the script.

def post_comments_to_lemmy(
    lemmy: Any, post_id: int, github_repo: str, issue: Issue
) -> None:
    logging.info(
        f"Posting comments from issue #{issue.number} to Lemmy post {LEMMY_INSTANCE_URL}/post/{post_id}"
    )
    try:
        comments_url: str = (
            f"{GITHUB_API_BASE}/repos/{github_repo}/issues/{issue.number}/comments"
        )
        comments: list[dict[str, Any]] = fetch_github_data(comments_url)
        for comment_dict in comments:
            if isinstance(comment_dict, str):
                continue
            comment = Comment(comment_dict, issue.number)
            post_comment_to_lemmy(lemmy, github_repo, comment, post_id, issue.number)
    except Exception as e:
        logging.exception(f"Error posting comments to lemmy post {post_id}\n{e}")
        raise

def fetch_github_data(url):
    try:
        headers = {"Accept": "application/vnd.github+json"}
        response = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
        response.raise_for_status()
        time.sleep(DELAY)
        logging.info(f"Fetched data from {url}")
        return response.json()
    except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
        logging.exception(f"Error fetching data from {url}\n{e}")
        raise

[INFO]:2023-07-14 10:40:46,748:root [github_lemmy_issue_reposter.py:275 - post_comments_to_lemmy()] Posting comments from issue #1889 to Lemmy post https://lemm.ee/post/1111239
[INFO]:2023-07-14 10:40:48,035:root [github_lemmy_issue_reposter.py:93 - fetch_github_data()] Fetched data from https://api.github.com/repos/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1889/comments

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