Ansible installation error on windows 10

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I am getting below strange error after installing ansible on windows 10.

ansible
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 198, in run_module_as_main
File “”, line 88, in run_code
File "C:\Tools\Python312\Scripts\ansible.exe_main.py", line 4, in
File "C:\Tools\Python312\Lib\site-packages\ansible\cli_init.py", line 42, in
check_blocking_io()
File “C:\Tools\Python312\Lib\site-packages\ansible\cli_init_.py”, line 34, in check_blocking_io
if not os.get_blocking(fd):
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
OSError: [WinError 1] Incorrect function

Below is the output of python version and installed modules

python --version
Python 3.12.2

pip list
Package Version

ansible-compat 4.1.11
ansible-core 2.16.3
ansible-lint 6.8.7
argcomplete 3.2.2
attrs 23.2.0
black 24.2.0
bracex 2.4
cffi 1.16.0
click 8.1.7
colorama 0.4.6
cryptography 42.0.3
filelock 3.13.1
Jinja2 3.1.3
jsonschema 4.21.1
jsonschema-specifications 2023.12.1
markdown-it-py 3.0.0
MarkupSafe 2.1.5
mdurl 0.1.2
mypy-extensions 1.0.0
packaging 23.2
pathspec 0.12.1
pip 24.0
platformdirs 4.2.0
pycparser 2.21
Pygments 2.17.2
PyYAML 6.0.1
referencing 0.33.0
resolvelib 1.0.1
rich 13.7.0
rpds-py 0.18.0
ruamel.yaml 0.17.40
ruamel.yaml.clib 0.2.8
subprocess-tee 0.4.1
wcmatch 8.5
yamllint 1.35.1

Am I doing anything wrong. Can someone help with it ?

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Hi, Ansible can manage Windows based hosts, but installing Ansible on Windows without WSL is not supported.

Refer to the docs:

For your control node (the machine that runs Ansible), you can use nearly any UNIX-like machine with Python installed. This includes Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu, macOS, BSDs, and Windows under a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) distribution. Windows without WSL is not natively supported as a control node; see Matt Davis’ blog post for more information.
Installing Ansible — Ansible Documentation

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Thanks for reply @kurokobo …!!

I do know that windows server can’t act as controller for ansible.
I am using VS Code to write ansible playbooks and it requires ansible plugin to be installed which I did as well but keep on getting ansible related errors. I tried installing it and got this error.

Is there any way to make ansible work for development through VS Code

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Hi, the extension page also has helpful note for Windows users:

Requirements

For Windows users, this extension works perfectly well with extensions such as Remote - WSL and Remote - Containers.
Ansible - Visual Studio Marketplace

Therefore, to use Ansible extension with VSCode on Windows, there should be UNIX-like environment as well, since it requres Ansible 2.9+ that can’t be installed on Windows natively.
If you are familier (or want to be so) with WSL or Podman on Windows, you can use it with VSCode over Remote - WSL or Remote - Containers.

Alternatively, I personally like to use Remote - SSH with VSCode to connect to controller node for Ansible and develop directly on the controller.

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