Thanks for the quick response Michael! For some reason the whole line I was actually using it in now works. Maybe I had missed a quote or something, but the bracket syntax now works. I don't know why I didn't see that in a full hour of staring at it yesterday, but it works now *shrugs*
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]>wrote: > All of the above should work, I'd have to play around with it to see > what's going on but it does seem like there's some quote mangling in the > debug module that may need to be fixxored. > > --Michael > > > > > On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Michael Peters <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> Just to clarify, this is because the "[" is part of YAML and is not >> getting parsed as you're expecting. You could probably also just quote >> the whole line. >> >> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Matt Martz <[email protected]> wrote: >> > You probably need to change your debug task to look like 1 of the three >> > examples: >> > >> > - debug: var=ansible_date_time.year >> > >> > - debug: >> > var: ansible_date_time['year'] >> > >> > - debug: >> > var: ansible_date_time.year >> > >> > -- >> > Matt Martz >> > [email protected] >> > >> > On May 29, 2014 at 11:52:27 AM, Andrew Cholakian ([email protected]) >> wrote: >> > >> > I've got a particularly vexing bug wrt the date / time helpers. Running >> the >> > following: >> > >> > - debug: "var=ansible_date_time['year']" >> > >> > Does not give me the current year, the variable remains uninterpolated. >> I've >> > tried various permutations of quoting, to no avail. The debug output >> > suspiciously drops a leading [, making me think there's a bug in the >> ansible >> > internals when parsing this. Here's the debug output: >> > >> > _________________________________________________________ >> > < TASK: tower-backup | debug var=ansible_date_time'year'] > >> > --------------------------------------------------------- >> > \ ^__^ >> > \ (oo)\_______ >> > (__)\ )\/\ >> > ||----w | >> > || || >> > >> > >> > ok: [ec2-54-86-254-67.compute-1.amazonaws.com] => { >> > "ansible_date_time[year]": "{{ ansible_date_time[year] }}", >> > "item": "" >> > } >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> > "Ansible Project" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an >> > email to [email protected]. >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> > >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/d59a51c9-d40c-4063-88a3-3b0235258ba7%40googlegroups.com >> . >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> > "Ansible Project" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an >> > email to [email protected]. >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> > >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/etPan.538758ec.643c9869.4b11%40mobiletuvix.rackspace.corp >> . >> > >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ansible Project" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAJQqANfnQNG7BFdAN5hrzaUu31twci1WYxkXnKw%2BnOfB_8eZog%40mail.gmail.com >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/ansible-project/uEIeOwVFv8w/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CA%2BnsWgzPYy8denonVHbzdADz_C3xYFyEp3hv9h0bVptYxKmn8Q%40mail.gmail.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CA%2BnsWgzPYy8denonVHbzdADz_C3xYFyEp3hv9h0bVptYxKmn8Q%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/CAOyM9bWOGb2F94Uz1nozPYLCiHV3q1AvHZJuw_sqiT6Nv46h5Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
