Thanks for the pointer. I was missing the vars section. The following works 
as expected:

---

- hosts: all
  vars:
    users:
      alice:
        name: Alice Appleworth
        telephone: 123-456-7890
      bob:
        name: Bob Bananarama
        telephone: 987-654-3210
  remote_user: root
  tasks:
    - name: Print phone records
      debug: msg="User {{ item.key }} is {{ item.value.name }} ({{ 
item.value.telephone }})"
      with_dict: users

On Tuesday, April 1, 2014 10:25:49 AM UTC-4, Serge van Ginderachter wrote:
>
>
> On 1 April 2014 00:25, Premanand Chandrasekaran 
> <[email protected]<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> *ERROR: parse error: playbooks must be formatted as a YAML list, got 
>> <type 'dict'>*
>>
>> And here is the playbook (used from the ansible documentation) at 
>> http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_loops.html#looping-over-hashes:
>
>
> ​This is not a playbook, but two distinct snippets, the first from ​a vars 
> file, the second is just a tasks list.
> Better have a look here http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_intro.html to 
> understand how a playbook is structured.
>
>
>>
>> ---
>> users:
>>   alice:
>>     name: Alice Appleworth
>>     telephone: 123-456-7890
>>   bob:
>>     name: Bob Bananarama
>>     telephone: 987-654-3210
>>
>> tasks:
>>   - name: Print phone records
>>     debug: msg="User {{ item.key }} is {{ item.value.name }} ({{ 
>> item.value.telephone }})"
>>     *with_dict*: users
>
>
>
>

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