EC2 boto issue

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I’m having an issue using the ec2 module with ansible, version 1.4.4 on OSX. I keep getting

msg: boto required for this module

I am not using virutalenv, python was installed with brew and both ansible and boto were installed with pip. I have removed and reinstalled each to be sure.

Anyone know what might be wrong?

thanks

E.

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Check if boto was installed to the site-packages for the default python in your path:

python -c "import boto ; print boto.Version"

Also figure out where site packages is for your default python ...

python -c "import site; print site.getsitepackages()"
python -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib; print(get_python_lib())"

Make sure there's a boto subdir in one of those directories.

If you can't find boto, the default python in your path is probably not the one brew is using.

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Thanks for the reply, your commands have really helped me understand the issue

Seems I have two versions of python installed, one from homebrew in the path /usr/local/bin/python and a default one in /usr/bin/python

When i run everything at the command line e.g. to install boto it uses the brew version as its in my path first. I’m guessing that ansible’s path is looking at /usr/bin/ first and finds the version there.

adding this in the host file gets it to work

Adding the following to the hosts file made it work,

[localhost]
127.0.0.1 ansible_python_interpreter=/usr/local/bin/python

Now i need to find out how to replace the default install with the brew managed one.

Thanks for helping,

Earn.