ansible/test/task-includer.yml

---
- hosts: all
  connection: local
  gather_facts: no
  vars:
  - internal: xyz

  tasks:
  - include: task-included.yml internal=$internal
Test case and fix for shlex.split unicode bug When operating on a unicode string in python 2.6, shlex.split returns a result that does not work with the file constructor. To reproduce this requires a task include that is templated (this is because the templated string is a unicode result, whereas a non- templated string is a non-unicode string) [will@centos6.3] $ python Python 2.6.6 (r266:84292, Sep 11 2012, 08:34:23) [GCC 4.4.6 20120305 (Red Hat 4.4.6-4)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import shlex >>> shlex.split(u'abc') ['a\x00\x00\x00b\x00\x00\x00c\x00\x00\x00'] [will@fedora17] $ python Python 2.7.3 (default, Jul 24 2012, 10:05:38) [GCC 4.7.0 20120507 (Red Hat 4.7.0-5)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import shlex >>> shlex.split(u'abc') ['abc'] The proposed fix (coercing the include parameters to string before the shlex.split) may not be ideal but it does fix the bug for my test case. 2013-04-08 06:47:43 +02:00			`---`
			`- hosts: all`
			`connection: local`
			`gather_facts: no`
			`vars:`
			`- internal: xyz`

			`tasks:`
			`- include: task-included.yml internal=$internal`