Ansible: Using EC2 external inventory script gives a Syntax Error

Question

I'm trying to follow this to fetch inventory in us-east-1 region. I downloaded the EC2 External Inventory script and made it executable. My ~/.boto looks like following.

[Credentials]
aws_access_key_id = <ACCESS_KEY>
aws_secret_access_key = <SECRET_KEY>

Where <ACCESS_KEY> and <SECRET_KEY> have real aws access and secret key values respectively.

When I run following command I get an error instead of list nodes in the region.

$ ansible -i ec2.py -u ubuntu us-east-1 -m ping

  File "/home/waseem/Repositories/Learning/Ansible/ec2.py", line 168
    print data_to_print
                      ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

ERROR: failed to parse executable inventory script results: {'msg': '', 'failed': True, 'parsed': False}

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

This is an issue with the wrong version of Python being used, not with Ansible itself.

http://docs.ansible.com/intro_installation.html specifies that Ansible runs on Python 2.6+, not Python 3.