# Ansible task crash if using with\_items

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-task-crash-if-using-with-items/19231>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [September 10, 2015, 3:51pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-task-crash-if-using-with-items/19231 "2015-09-10T15:51:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Eino\_Tuominen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@Eino\_Tuominen](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Eino_Tuominen)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 3:51pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-task-crash-if-using-with-items/19231/1 "2015-09-10T15:51:23Z")

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Hello,

I have:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.7 (Santiago)

Linux [x.utu.fi](http://x.utu.fi) 2.6.32-504.30.3.el6.x86\_64 #1 SMP Thu Jul 9 15:20:47 EDT 2015 x86\_64 x86\_64 x86\_64 GNU/Linux

# ansible --version

ansible 2.0.0

config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg

configured module search path = /etc/ansible/library

# cat reproduce.yml

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 9:11pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-task-crash-if-using-with-items/19231/2 "2015-09-10T21:11:07Z")

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this will probably be fixed soon, we are trying to introduce a  
'unsafe' type into current devel to allow for good data sanitation.

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**Author:** ![James\_Cammarata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7c8e57/32.png) [@James\_Cammarata](https://forum.ansible.com/u/James_Cammarata)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 12:39am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-task-crash-if-using-with-items/19231/3 "2015-09-14T00:39:46Z")

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Hi Eino, this appears to be working now:

TASK [foo] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*  
changed: [localhost] =\> (item=foo) =\> {“changed”: true, “cmd”: “true”, “delta”: “0:00:00.002933”, “end”: “2015-09-13 20:38:31.761057”, “item”: “foo”, “rc”: 0, “start”: “2015-09-13 20:38:31.758124”, “stderr”: “”, “stdout”: “”, “stdout\_lines”: , “warnings”: }  
changed: [localhost] =\> (item=bar) =\> {“changed”: true, “cmd”: “true”, “delta”: “0:00:00.003014”, “end”: “2015-09-13 20:38:31.826862”, “item”: “bar”, “rc”: 0, “start”: “2015-09-13 20:38:31.823848”, “stderr”: “”, “stdout”: “”, “stdout\_lines”: , “warnings”: }

Let us know if you continue seeing problems with this.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Eino\_Tuominen1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cab0a1/32.png) [@Eino\_Tuominen1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Eino_Tuominen1)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2015, 5:03am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ansible-task-crash-if-using-with-items/19231/4 "2015-09-14T05:03:07Z")

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Hi James,

It seems that it’s now working with Python 2.7 on RHEL. The distribution supplied Python (2.6) still produces the same error.