# Do you have an example for use a playbook with Python API ?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/do-you-have-an-example-for-use-a-playbook-with-python-api/30711>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [July 4, 2019, 12:07am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/do-you-have-an-example-for-use-a-playbook-with-python-api/30711 "2019-07-04T00:07:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bruno\_Selva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/da6949/32.png) [@Bruno\_Selva](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Bruno_Selva)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2019, 12:07am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/do-you-have-an-example-for-use-a-playbook-with-python-api/30711/1 "2019-07-04T00:07:02Z")

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I am trying hard to create a simple script to execute a playbook with python

`

from ansible.parsing.dataloader import DataLoader  
from ansible.vars.manager import VariableManager  
from ansible.inventory.manager import InventoryManager  
from ansible.executor.playbook\_executor import PlaybookExecutor

loader = DataLoader()

inventory = InventoryManager(loader=loader, sources=“localhost,”)  
variable\_manager = VariableManager(loader=loader, inventory=inventory)  
passwords={}

playbook = PlaybookExecutor(playbooks=[‘test.yml’],inventory=inventory,variable\_manager=variable\_manager,loader=loader,passwords=passwords)  
playbook.run()

`

This is simple, but keep saying error:

`

Traceback (most recent call last):  
File “ansible\_play.py”, line 13, in   
playbook.run()  
File “/Users/brunoselva/.local/share/virtualenvs/devops-lambda-sY4jyCvw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/executor/playbook\_executor.py”, line 146, in run  
if context.CLIARGS[‘syntax’]:  
File “/Users/brunoselva/.local/share/virtualenvs/devops-lambda-sY4jyCvw/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/module\_utils/common/collections.py”, line 20, in **getitem**  
return self.\_store[key]  
KeyError: ‘syntax’

`

Someone knows what I am doing wrong ?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/original/1X/1882d9a01da5d8996a862359b0913cc568a39b84.svg) [@system](https://forum.ansible.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 1:47pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/do-you-have-an-example-for-use-a-playbook-with-python-api/30711/2 "2019-07-05T13:47:04Z")

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[https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev\_guide/developing\_api.html](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/dev_guide/developing_api.html)

you are not setting required options, see the comment and line on how  
to set context.CLIARGS