The value returned from this plugin is a bytes literal in Python 3 and a string literal in Python 2. For example, if there is a key "foo" with value "bar", Python 2 returns 'bar' (string) while Python 3 returns b'bar' (b' ' for bytes).
This happens because the plugin uses the ansible.utils.cmd_functions.run_cmd function which simply returns the raw stdout. Python 2 ignores the byte encoding while Python 3 does not. This makes it necessary to manually handle the decoding of bytes (using bytes.decode() ) in Python 3 to make the value useful as a string because most use cases of this plugin would require string values. Is this the expected behavior? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/29a237cb-3bf2-4eb5-b75f-9523ca15788fn%40googlegroups.com.
