host pattern that is an integer produces traceback

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ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

COMPONENT NAME

Inventory

ANSIBLE VERSION

2.3 -> devel

CONFIGURATION

OS / ENVIRONMENT

SUMMARY

This came up on slack a bit ago, I suspect an issue was not logged. It looks to me as inventory is interpreting the group as an integer, then failing when it is not iterable.

The issue seems to comes from

ansible/lib/ansible/inventory/manager.py

Line 94 in 2ffe3c4

elif ',' in pattern:

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

Create a group in inventory with only integers

[2911]
ios-rt01
ios-rt02

EXPECTED RESULTS

ACTUAL RESULTS

Using /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg as config file
PLAYBOOK: ios_radius_2.yml ************************************************************************************************************************
1 plays in ios_radius_2.yml
ERROR! Unexpected Exception: argument of type 'int' is not iterable
the full traceback was:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ansible-playbook", line 109, in <module>
    exit_code = cli.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/cli/playbook.py", line 154, in run
    results = pbex.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/executor/playbook_executor.py", line 125, in run
    all_vars = self._variable_manager.get_vars(loader=self._loader, play=play)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/vars/__init__.py", line 236, in get_vars
    include_delegate_to=include_delegate_to,
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/vars/__init__.py", line 429, in _get_magic_variables
    variables['ansible_play_hosts_all'] = [x.name for x in self._inventory.get_hosts(pattern=pattern, ignore_restrictions=True)]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/inventory/__init__.py", line 247, in get_hosts
    patterns = Inventory.split_host_pattern(pattern)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/ansible/inventory/__init__.py", line 284, in split_host_pattern
    elif ',' in pattern:
TypeError: argument of type 'int' is not iterable
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[bcoca]

no, pattern does not come from inventory, it comes from host patterns

[itdependsnetworks]

I'm not sure what that means, but it looks like you have fixed

[bcoca]

the source of the issue was not the inventory definition, but the selection criteria, for example from play hosts: or similar from --limit , which are 'host patterns'