Extracting items from list within another list

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Newbie when it comes to ansible and jinja. Were porting our installation and maintenance python scripts to ansible. We have large variable list (xml files, 4000+ lines) which I ran through an xml->yml converter. The output yaml is similar to the simplified version below.

From within a template, I’m trying to extract a value from a var file list within another list. I need the items from ‘level4’ in the var file:

Var file:

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Sorry, output from run:

`

PLAY [Test-c7-1] ******************************************************************************************************************************************************************

TASK [Gathering Facts] ************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [Test-c7-1]

TASK [john.test : set] ************************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [Test-c7-1]

TASK [john.test : debug] **********************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [Test-c7-1] => {
“msg”: {
“level4”: [
“theImportanStuff1”,
“theImportanStuff2”
]
}
}

TASK [john.test : set2] ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [Test-c7-1]

TASK [john.test : debug] **********************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [Test-c7-1] => {
“msg”: [
{
“_instance”: 1,
“_type”: “listType1”,
“level3”: {
“level4”: [
“theImportanStuff1”,
“theImportanStuff2”
]
}
}
]
}

TASK [john.test : set3] ***********************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [Test-c7-1]

TASK [john.test : debug] **********************************************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [Test-c7-1] => {
“msg”: “<generator object _select_or_reject at 0x1aa9730>”
}

TASK [john.test : Gather OS specific variables] ***********************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [Test-c7-1] => (item=/etc/ansible/roles/john.test/vars/redhat.yml)

TASK [john.test : Copy TEST configuration file] ***********************************************************************************************************************************
ok: [Test-c7-1]

PLAY RECAP ************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
Test-c7-1 : ok=9 changed=0 unreachable=0 failed=0

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Found my answer:

{% for item in level1.level2|selectattr('_type','match','listType1') %} {% for item2 in item.level3.level4 %} myInfo: {{ item2 }} {% endfor %} {% endfor %}

I had too many in my testing.