"filter" functionality for 'when:' conditional

[Patrick Glomski]

When running a task with multiple items using 'with_items', the results are registered in a variable under 'results' as a list. Is there any way to apply a filter such as 'any' or 'all' to that list in a conditional on the next task's execution? The only way I can do something currently is to perform the following task several times (once for every item in the list that evaluates as true for my condition). I'd rather not notify a handler, because the following tasks depend on this task being evaluated.

simple example I just made up to illustrate what I want:

###############################################
- name: run a script to configure network interfaces
  lineinfile:
    - dest: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-{{item}}"
    - ...
    - some arbitrary keywords...
    - ...
  with_items:
    - eth0
    - eth1
  register: configured_network

- name: restart the network service. what I currently do (potentially restarts network twice)
  service: name=network state=restarted
  when: item.changed == true
  with_items: configured_network.results

- name: mount a share that is on the newly configured network and wasn't available before
  mount: ...
###############################################

I would like to restart the service ONE time on check. Something like:

- name: restart the network service
  service: name=network state=restarted
  when: any(item.changed == true for item in configured_network.results)

Apologies for the long-winded examples, but I didn't know how else to convey what I'm interested in. Is this kind of functionality possible???

Thanks,
Patrick

[Brian Coca]

i think this is the droid you are looking for:
http://jinja.pocoo.org/docs/dev/templates/#map

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[Patrick Glomski]

Thanks so much for your help, Brian! I'll try to RTFM next time.

Patrick