Error in Running Ansible Programmatically using Python API

Question

I am running below python script to run a playbook to ping a host machine. Getting below error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "ansible.py", line 2, in <module>
    from ansible.parsing.dataloader import DataLoader
  File "/home/tcprod/schaitanya/python_ansible/ansible.py", line 2, in <module>
    from ansible.parsing.dataloader import DataLoader
ImportError: No module named parsing.dataloader

Below is the entire script

from collections import namedtuple
from ansible.parsing.dataloader import DataLoader
from ansible.vars import VariableManager
from ansible.inventory import Inventory
from ansible.playbook.play import Play
from ansible.executor.task_queue_manager import TaskQueueManager

#Initialize the objects that are needed for the play.

Options = namedtuple('Options',
                ['connection', 'module_path', 'forks', 'become',
                 'become_method', 'become_user', 'check']
            )

#initialize needed objects

variable_manager = VariableManager()
loader = DataLoader()

options = Options(
    connection='local', module_path='', forks=100, become=True,
    become_method='sudo', become_user='root', check=False)
passwords = dict(vault_pass='secret')

#create inventory and pass to variable manager

inventory = Inventory(loader=loader, variable_manager=variable_manager,
                      host_list='localhost')
variable_manager.set_inventory(inventory)

#create play with tasks

play_src = dict(
    name="ping localhost",
    hosts="localhost",
    gather_facts="no",
    tasks=[
        # installing dependencies


        dict(name="ping local host",
             action=dict(module="ping"))
           ])

play = Play().load(play_src, variable_manager=variable_manager, loader=loader)


tqm = None
try:
    tqm = TaskQueueManager(
            inventory=inventory,
            variable_manager=variable_manager,
            loader=loader,
            options=options,
            passwords=passwords,
            stdout_callback="default",
        )
    result = tqm.run(play)
finally:
    if tqm is not None:
        tqm.cleanup()

How to resolve this dependency issue and make the python program work?

Don't overlap names in Python. Try to rename your script from ansible.py to my_ansible.py. — Konstantin Suvorov
– Konstantin Suvorov, Commented Nov 19, 2016 at 8:38

shneby · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-23 10:47:51Z

1

From what I saw in my environment I got this error when the script wasn't in my root directory.

[root@xxx API]# ./my_ansible.py 
Traceback (most recent call last):   
     File "./my_ansible.py", line 5, in <module>
        from ansible.parsing.dataloader import DataLoader   
     File "/home/xxx/projects/API/ansible.py", line 5, in <module>
ImportError: No module named parsing.dataloader

Once I moved it to /root - it ran fine:

[root@xxx ~]# ./my_ansible.py
[root@xxx ~]#

answered Jan 23, 2017 at 10:47

shneby

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