ansible replace with_items prepends the letter 'u'

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I’m trying to use the replace module to update SSL ciphers and seem to be running into a Unicode issue.

The code:

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Is it showing up in your sshd_config file or just in the display of what each item was?

-Toshio

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I’m not sure what I was thinking but this has nothing to do with the ‘u’ - the code is working just as expected since these lines do not yet exist. What I needed to use was lineinfile, not replace. Changes highlighted below and it’s working now.