Hi Tim,

Very good point. I will definitely change it accordingly. Thank you again.

Regards,
Olivier

On Thursday, 16 July 2015 20:53:15 UTC+1, Timothy Appnel wrote:
>
> I'm glad you were able to work something out and I was helpful. A couple 
> of quick added thoughts on this.
>
> I wouldn't recommend just dropping your library in to just /tmp to avoid a 
> potential conflict with another job or process. Perhaps create a separate 
> directory like the name of your project or playbook under tmp and store it 
> there? I think create a specific directory helps avoid this.
>
> I also wouldn't recommend embedding a library path in your custom module 
> for maintainability. It's working for you now, but the thought of having to 
> have that path line up in two different places make me uneasy. I used the 
> environment arg and appended the path to our libraries to PYTHONPATH. 
> Everything is in one place: the playbook. A var to hold the path (you can 
> use Ansible facts to really create a unique path that won't get tread on), 
> the path create, the copy, the environment setting. Change it in one place 
> and the change probates thru.
>
> Just some food for thought.
>
> <tim/> 
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Olivier Lauret <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Hi Tim,
>>
>> Thank you very much for the update. It helps a lot, thank you very much. 
>> Indeed, I have chosen your second option as it is easier to maintain and 
>> avoid any conflict with other systems. The inifile.py is too big to be 
>> included in the custom module but I would not do this as I wouldn't be able 
>> to re-utilise it.
>>
>> Here is how I did it:
>>
>> In my playbook or role:
>> tasks:
>>   - name: Upload python module
>>     copy: src=library/inifile.py dest=/tmp/inifile.py
>> In my custom module:
>> import sys
>> sys.path.append('/tmp')
>> from inifile import IniFile
>>
>> And to answer your question, what I am trying to achieve here is an 
>> extension to the ini_file module in Ansible. The current module doesn't 
>> answer my needs such as:
>>
>>    - setting easily a continious list of options such as:
>>       - whitelist.0 = item1
>>       - whitelist.1 = item2
>>       - whitelist.2 = item3
>>    - checking and replacing a list of options (such as ["ower", "owne"]) 
>>    by one option name ("owner")
>>    - Dealing with options that doesn't have section (generally mean that 
>>    this is default to all sections)
>>    - Dealing with empty name section ([]) and comments - this one I am 
>>    less sure about but I know that the ConfigParser cannot handle this.
>>
>> Thank you again for your precious help.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Olivier
>>
>> On Thursday, 16 July 2015 15:20:03 UTC+1, Timothy Appnel wrote:
>>>
>>> I didn't give up at all. Far from it! I started working for Ansible. 
>>>
>>> Last I spoke to my former co-workers they are still using options 2 that 
>>> I setup because they do not have the ability to install python libraries in 
>>> the default library path.
>>>
>>> <tim/>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 4:05 PM Timothy Appnel <[email protected]> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> In a previous life I've had to do what you are attempting.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> So what do you do now? It sound like you went on and are using a 
>>>> completely different approach to achieve what the op wants to do (load 
>>>> custom code) 
>>>>
>>>> I'm not asking about options but rather what you actually ended up with 
>>>> doing (give up and/or stopped using the tool are viable answers to me)
>>>>
>>>> /Martin
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