Example to customize modules errors

[Tiglath]

I followed the docs example to add a module as with the time.py example.

 

So I have:

-----------

#!/usr/bin/python

import datetime
import json

date = str(datetime.datetime.now())
print json.dumps({
    "time" : date
})
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And after:

 

source ansible/hacking/env-setup
chmod +x ansible/hacking/test-module

ansible/hacking/test-module -m ./time.py

 

I get:

 

{"time": "2014-10-30 14:34:22.224548"}

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "ansible-dev/hacking/test-module", line 37, in <module>

import ansible.utils as utils

File "/export/home/jsuriol/.local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible-1.8-py2.6.egg/ansible/utils/__init__.py", line 29, in <module>

from ansible.utils.display_functions import *

File "/export/home/jsuriol/.local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible-1.8-py2.6.egg/ansible/utils/display_functions.py", line 22, in <module>

from ansible.callbacks import display

File "/export/home/jsuriol/.local/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible-1.8-py2.6.egg/ansible/callbacks.py", line 31, in <module>

import logging

File "/usr/lib/python2.6/logging/__init__.py", line 89, in <module>

_startTime = time.time()

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'time'

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The file logging/__init__.py imports time, so what can the problem be?

 

Thanks

 

 

 

[Matt Martz]

Since "time" is part of the Python standard library and it is imported from various places within ansible you should not have a module named time.py since puthon will try to use that file as the file to satisfy "import time".

This wouldn't have been a problem before modules had .py extensions.  I imagine the docs should probably be updated to name this something other than time.py

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[Michael DeHaan]

Yep, that's a good suggestion.

Can you either please file a ticket on github.com/ansible/ansible or submit a pull request that changes the docs (.rst files in the code tree) to say something like "timecheck" ?

I think this ordinarily won't happen anyway, but the module happened to be in your PYTHON_PATH.  Usually this wouldn't be the case but it would be nice to step around the possible confusion for others finding this in the dev docs.

Appreciate the heads up!

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