# ec2 inventory script broke with 'module' object has no attribute 'boto3\_inventory\_conn' **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Tags:** ubuntu, aws\ **Created:** [June 5, 2017, 11:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ec2-inventory-script-broke-with-module-object-has-no-attribute-boto3-inventory-conn/24655 "2017-06-05T23:46:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Michael\_Bushey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Michael\_Bushey](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_Bushey)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2017, 11:46pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ec2-inventory-script-broke-with-module-object-has-no-attribute-boto3-inventory-conn/24655/1 "2017-06-05T23:46:46Z")
Hello, I am running Ubuntu 16.04 w/Ansible 2.0.0.2-2ubuntu1. /etc/ansible$ wget [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/devel/contrib/inventory/ec2.py](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/devel/contrib/inventory/ec2.py) /etc/ansible$ wget [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/devel/contrib/inventory/ec2.ini](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/devel/contrib/inventory/ec2.ini) /etc/ansible$ chmod +x /etc/ansible/ec2.py I have a credentials file in ~/.aws/credentials /etc/ansible$ ./ec2.py --list Traceback (most recent call last): File “./ec2.py”, line 1600, in Ec2Inventory() File “./ec2.py”, line 193, in **init** self.do\_api\_calls\_update\_cache() File “./ec2.py”, line 527, in do\_api\_calls\_update\_cache self.get\_rds\_instances\_by\_region(region) File “./ec2.py”, line 633, in get\_rds\_instances\_by\_region client = ec2\_utils.boto3\_inventory\_conn(‘client’, ‘rds’, region, \*\*self.credentials) AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘boto3\_inventory\_conn’ I have installed boto and boto3 via both apt-get and pip with the same result. I have found a few other versions of ec2.py but none of them work. Any ideas? Thanks! Michael ---
**Author:** ![sivel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/sivel/32/1198_2.png) [@sivel](https://forum.ansible.com/u/sivel)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2017, 11:57pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ec2-inventory-script-broke-with-module-object-has-no-attribute-boto3-inventory-conn/24655/2 "2017-06-05T23:57:55Z")
The ec2.py inventory is not fully self contained and relies on functionality within ansible itself. The file you pulled from github requires ansible 2.3 to function. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Bushey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Michael\_Bushey](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_Bushey)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2017, 12:12am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ec2-inventory-script-broke-with-module-object-has-no-attribute-boto3-inventory-conn/24655/3 "2017-06-06T00:12:28Z")
I installed the latest Ansible (2.3.1.0) from source and now I get: /etc/ansible$ ./ec2.py --list --refresh-cache {“msg”: “Error: Module unable to decode valid JSON on stdin. Unable to figure out what parameters were passed”, “failed”: true} ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Bushey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Michael\_Bushey](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_Bushey)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2017, 12:32am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ec2-inventory-script-broke-with-module-object-has-no-attribute-boto3-inventory-conn/24655/4 "2017-06-06T00:32:51Z")
“./ec2.py --list” is now working. The correct ec2.py was from ansible-2.3.1.0/contrib/inventory/ Thanks for your help Matt. 🙂 Michael ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Bushey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Michael\_Bushey](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_Bushey)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2017, 1:02am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ec2-inventory-script-broke-with-module-object-has-no-attribute-boto3-inventory-conn/24655/5 "2017-06-06T01:02:16Z")
/etc/ansible/ec2.py --list works, but if I try to run from ansible I get this: ~/ansible/playbooks$ ansible -i /etc/ansible/ec2.py -u ubuntu us-east-1d -m ping Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/local/bin/ansible”, line 4, in **import** (‘pkg\_resources’).run\_script(‘ansible==2.3.1.0’, ‘ansible’) File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg\_resources/ **init**.py”, line 2927, in @\_call\_aside File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg\_resources/ **init**.py”, line 2913, in \_call\_aside f(\*args, \*\*kwargs) File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg\_resources/ **init**.py”, line 2940, in \_initialize\_master\_working\_set working\_set = WorkingSet.\_build\_master() File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg\_resources/ **init**.py”, line 635, in \_build\_master ws.require( **requires** ) File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg\_resources/ **init**.py”, line 943, in require needed = self.resolve(parse\_requirements(requirements)) File “/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pkg\_resources/ **init**.py”, line 829, in resolve raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers) pkg\_resources.DistributionNotFound: The ‘pycrypto\>=2.6’ distribution was not found and is required by ansible I installed the python-pycryptopp packge but that didn’t help. ---
**Author:** ![Vivek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/77aa72/32.png) [@Vivek](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Vivek)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 1:55am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/ec2-inventory-script-broke-with-module-object-has-no-attribute-boto3-inventory-conn/24655/6 "2017-06-14T01:55:14Z")
It seems working fine with ansible 2.4.0