ValueError: No closing quotation

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Mona Gopal

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Feb 21, 2017, 1:14:35 AM2/21/17
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Hi,

ansible-playbook -i hosts site.yml -vvvv -c paramiko
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ansible-playbook", line 324, in <module>
    sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))
  File "/usr/bin/ansible-playbook", line 157, in main
    inventory = ansible.inventory.Inventory(options.inventory, vault_password=vault_pass)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/inventory/__init__.py", line 128, in __init__
    self.parser = InventoryParser(filename=host_list)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/inventory/ini.py", line 43, in __init__
    self._parse()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/inventory/ini.py", line 47, in _parse
    self._parse_base_groups()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/inventory/ini.py", line 108, in _parse_base_groups
    tokens = shlex.split(line)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/shlex.py", line 279, in split
    return list(lex)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/shlex.py", line 269, in next
    token = self.get_token()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/shlex.py", line 96, in get_token
    raw = self.read_token()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/shlex.py", line 172, in read_token
    raise ValueError, "No closing quotation"
ValueError: No closing quotation

Getting the above error while executing the playbook
Ansible version is: 1.9.4
Python version is: Python 2.6.6

Thanks in advance,
Mona G

Dick Davies

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Feb 21, 2017, 9:04:12 AM2/21/17
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You have a syntax error in your site.yml, probably an unterminated string.

Try http://yamllint.com maybe?
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