From d1a688b1d71d27b43e18be2af276509c879f1f0a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Coca <bcoca@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 09:37:34 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] dict is dict (#54057)

---
 changelogs/fragments/dict_is_dict.yml | 2 ++
 lib/ansible/template/__init__.py      | 3 +++
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 changelogs/fragments/dict_is_dict.yml

diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/dict_is_dict.yml b/changelogs/fragments/dict_is_dict.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..53076782ff3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/dict_is_dict.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+    - allow 'dict()' jinja2 global to function the same even though it has changed in jinja2 versions
diff --git a/lib/ansible/template/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/template/__init__.py
index 9739e1cbc3c..86ca17968fb 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/template/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/template/__init__.py
@@ -690,6 +690,9 @@ class Templar:
                 else:
                     return data
 
+            # jinja2 global is inconsistent across versions, this normalizes them
+            t.globals['dict'] = dict
+
             if disable_lookups:
                 t.globals['query'] = t.globals['q'] = t.globals['lookup'] = self._fail_lookup
             else: