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

Replace basestring with str. In 2.x basestring is there. but in 3.x the basestring has been replaced with "str".