printing the items on dictionary format

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I have the items defined in the file vars/myvars.yml as below:

world:
asia:
country: india
state: maha
city: mumbai

n_america:
nation: canada
province : quebec
city: montreal

When I try to print them with a loop and subelements , i am missing something
- name: play to print the details
hosts: localhost
gather_facts: no
vars:
- vars/myvars.yml
tasks:
- name: printing the details of montreal
debug:
msg: “{{ item[2] [‘city’]}}”
loop: “{{ world | subelements(‘n_america’) | dict2items }}”

I receive a error like “obj must be a list of dicts or a nested dict”}

msg: with "*world .*n_america.city" will work
I want to print this through loop only , as i need to process other items also.

Thanks ,

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Hi

you can try this way

3

Thanks … You mean with the “loop” enabled … It did not work in both modes.

I am looking for a way so that this particular play will process the variables(items) under n_america in
vars_files :
- vars/myvars.yml

4

Not sure what you’re trying to do with subelements.
You could do this:

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Thanks Todd,

It works .

“Not sure what you’re trying to do with subelements.” - I want to avoid printing messages of other dict items ( asia) from vars during the execution (in the skipping), which prints some sensitive info on the screen.
Turning on no_log is not helpful in registering the output.
So , I was trying to call only the variables under n_america when I execute the task and i got it . However for now skipping shows the items from asia during the play .