From bff47df5ffd93b28a7da856882bc707d2f1a596a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Cammarata <jimi@sngx.net>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2013 09:20:48 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fix issue with ast evaluation of strings
---
lib/ansible/inventory/ini.py | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lib/ansible/inventory/ini.py b/lib/ansible/inventory/ini.py
index ff1f4ceac69..1cb79ac8cdb 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/inventory/ini.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/inventory/ini.py
@@ -117,7 +117,12 @@ class InventoryParser(object):
(k,v) = t.split("=")
except ValueError, e:
raise errors.AnsibleError("Invalid ini entry: %s - %s" % (t, str(e)))
- host.set_variable(k,ast.literal_eval(v))
+ try:
+ host.set_variable(k,ast.literal_eval(v))
+ except:
+ # most likely a string that literal_eval
+ # doesn't like, so just set it
+ host.set_variable(k,v)
self.groups[active_group_name].add_host(host)
# [southeast:children]