Unexpected Exception: name 'basestring' is not defined when invoking ansible2

Question

I\'m trying to execute ansible2 commnads...

When I do:

ansible-playbook -vvv -i my/inventory my/playbook.yml

I get:

Answer 1

basestring is not available in Python 3.:

This can be fixed for python 2.x and 3.x with the following:

try:
  basestring
except NameError:
  basestring = str