# Ansible git/OSX: "connect() takes at most 3 arguments (7 given)" **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [August 29, 2013, 12:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-git-osx-connect-takes-at-most-3-arguments-7-given/13380 "2013-08-29T12:55:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Brian\_Candler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Brian\_Candler](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Candler)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2013, 12:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-git-osx-connect-takes-at-most-3-arguments-7-given/13380/1 "2013-08-29T12:55:07Z")
I am trying to use ansible directly from a git checkout, on OSX 10.7.5 (which comes with python 2.7.1) I get the following error: $ git branch - devel master $ cat test.inv localhost $ PYTHONPATH=lib bin/ansible localhost -i test.inv -m shell -a ‘echo hello’ localhost | FAILED =\> Traceback (most recent call last): File “/Users/brian/git/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/ **init**.py”, line 375, in \_executor exec\_rc = self.\_executor\_internal(host, new\_stdin) File “/Users/brian/git/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/ **init**.py”, line 462, in \_executor\_internal return self.\_executor\_internal\_inner(host, self.module\_name, self.module\_args, inject, port, complex\_args=complex\_args) File “/Users/brian/git/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/ **init**.py”, line 610, in \_executor\_internal\_inner conn = self.connector.connect(actual\_host, actual\_port, actual\_user, actual\_pass, actual\_transport, actual\_private\_key\_file) TypeError: connect() takes at most 3 arguments (7 given) Adding -vvv doesn’t give any more info. I believe I have the correct dependencies, although they were installed a while ago and may not be the latest ones: $ ls /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ Jinja2-2.6-py2.7.egg paramiko-1.7.7.2-py2.7.egg PyYAML-3.10-py2.7-macosx-10.7-intel.egg pycrypto-2.6-py2.7-macosx-10.7-intel.egg README vboxapi easy-install.pth vboxapi-1.0-py2.7.egg-info So then I updated to latest versions of paramiko/PyYAML/Jinja2: $ ls /Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ Jinja2-2.6-py2.7.egg paramiko-1.11.0-py2.7.egg Jinja2-2.7.1-py2.7.egg paramiko-1.7.7.2-py2.7.egg MarkupSafe-0.18-py2.7-macosx-10.7-intel.egg pycrypto-2.6-py2.7-macosx-10.7-intel.egg PyYAML-3.10-py2.7-macosx-10.7-intel.egg vboxapi README vboxapi-1.0-py2.7.egg-info easy-install.pth But unfortunately I get exactly the same result. Any clues? Thanks, Brian. ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Candler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Brian\_Candler](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Candler)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2013, 1:02pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-git-osx-connect-takes-at-most-3-arguments-7-given/13380/2 "2013-08-29T13:02:47Z")
I found the documentation about hacking/env-setup, but this doesn’t make a difference. I also tried a “git checkout” of some previous tagged versions (e.g. v1.2) with no change. So there’s something really strange going on on my box, but I can’t see what it is. Brians-MacBook-Air:ansible $ . hacking/env-setup Setting up Ansible to run out of checkout… PATH=/Users/brian/git/ansible/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11/bin:/usr/texbin PYTHONPATH=/Users/brian/git/ansible/lib: ANSIBLE\_LIBRARY=/Users/brian/git/ansible/library MANPATH=/Users/brian/git/ansible/docs/man: Remember, you may wish to specify your host file with -i Done! Brians-MacBook-Air:ansible $ ansible localhost -i test.inv -m shell -a 'echo hello’localhost | FAILED =\> Traceback (most recent call last): File “/Users/brian/git/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/ **init**.py”, line 375, in \_executor exec\_rc = self.\_executor\_internal(host, new\_stdin) File “/Users/brian/git/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/ **init**.py”, line 462, in \_executor\_internal return self.\_executor\_internal\_inner(host, self.module\_name, self.module\_args, inject, port, complex\_args=complex\_args) File “/Users/brian/git/ansible/lib/ansible/runner/ **init**.py”, line 610, in \_executor\_internal\_inner conn = self.connector.connect(actual\_host, actual\_port, actual\_user, actual\_pass, actual\_transport, actual\_private\_key\_file) TypeError: connect() takes at most 3 arguments (7 given) Brians-MacBook-Air:ansible $ which ansible /Users/brian/git/ansible/bin/ansible ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Candler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Brian\_Candler](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Candler)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2013, 1:36pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-git-osx-connect-takes-at-most-3-arguments-7-given/13380/3 "2013-08-29T13:36:42Z")
Solved. I believe the problem was probably the existence of an old **init**.pyc from a previous incarnation of ansible. $ ls lib/ansible/runner/connection **init**.pyc local.pyc paramiko\_ssh.pyc ssh.pyc Anyway, it was fixed by this: $ find . -name ‘\*.pyc’ | xargs rm ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan2](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan2)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2013, 12:23am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-git-osx-connect-takes-at-most-3-arguments-7-given/13380/4 "2013-08-30T00:23:52Z")
Yep.