template module setting variables to unicode

[Henry Mendez]

Hi,

I've recently updated from 1.9.1 to 2.0.2.0. I use the template module a lot to build configs for my app. After updating, when I generate my templates, the data structure variables are being rendered as unicode strings.

Versions:

ansible 2.0.2.0

PyYAML==3.11

Jinja2==2.8

Example:

File with variables:

---

my_list:

    - var1

Template file:

app.config.j2

'MYLIST': '{{my_list}}'

ansible command:

ansible localhost -m template -a "src=app.config.j2 dest=/tmp/app.config"

Contents of app.config:

'MYLIST': '[u'var1']'

What I used to get: (Version 1.9.1)

'MYLIST': '['var1']'

If I change my env file to be a string, then the file gets generated how it used to be.

---

my_list: "['var1']"

This also happens when I try creating dictionaries and nested dictionaries. Any ideas on what could be causing this, or how I can fix it?

TIA,

Henry

[Brian Coca]

This is a 'pythonism', in 2.0 we are much better about handling unicode, a consequence of that is that the structures that were possibly ASCII internally are now all unicode, which python represents as u''.

If you want a YAML or JSON output (without u' ') you should use |to_yaml or |to_json filters.

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Brian Coca

[Henry Mendez]

On Friday, August 5, 2016 at 8:48:35 AM UTC-4, Brian Coca wrote:

This is a 'pythonism', in 2.0 we are much better about handling unicode, a consequence of that is that the structures that were possibly ASCII internally are now all unicode, which python represents as u''.

If you want a YAML or JSON output (without u' ') you should use |to_yaml or |to_json filters.

That works. Thank you!