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

I ran into this issue using Python 3 with Ansible and solved by forking the dopy project and installing dopy in my ansible script with:

name: git+https://github.com/eodgooch/dopy@0.4.0#egg=dopy.

If you are still getting errors be sure to change the version to 0.4.0 and remove any lingering dopy packages from your Python site-packages directory.

Also you could pip3 install git+https://github.com/eodgooch/dopy@0.4.0#egg=dopy instead of in your Ansible Task.