lineinfile error "NameError: global name 'is_quoted' is not defined"

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When using lineinfile, I get this kind of an error:

TASK: [Enable/Disable watchdog] ***********************************************
failed: [dni-7448-35] => {“failed”: true, “parsed”: false}
invalid output was: Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/cumulus/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1429913951.55-31782322592167/lineinfile”, line 1917, in
main()
File “/home/cumulus/.ansible/tmp/ansible-tmp-1429913951.55-31782322592167/lineinfile”, line 370, in main
should_unquote = not is_quoted(line)
NameError: global name ‘is_quoted’ is not defined

FATAL: all hosts have already failed – aborting

the task looks like so:

  • name: Enable/Disable watchdog
    lineinfile: dest=/etc/watchdog.d/platform line=“run_watchdog={{ run_watchdog }}” state=present
    when: run_watchdog is defined

Ansible version is 1.7

Anybody knows how to fix this?

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Looking at the code in the git repo it looks like it’s fixed as of 1.7.1

The lineinfile module needs to have

from ansible.module_utils.splitter import *

Near the bottom of the file.

-Toshio