# Retrieve only depth=1 children for a group in inventory **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [February 9, 2016, 4:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/retrieve-only-depth-1-children-for-a-group-in-inventory/20497 "2016-02-09T16:40:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Christophe\_Boivin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Christophe\_Boivin](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Christophe_Boivin)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 4:40pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/retrieve-only-depth-1-children-for-a-group-in-inventory/20497/1 "2016-02-09T16:40:32Z")
Hello, I would like to get a list of only children of depth 1 for a certain group If my inventory is : > [group\_a:children] > group\_b > group\_c > > [group\_b] > host1 > host2 > > [group\_c] > host3 When I try to loop on items of group\_a:children i will get [host1, host2, host3] Is there any way to get [group\_b, group\_c] ? Thanks in advance Christophe ---
**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/retrieve-only-depth-1-children-for-a-group-in-inventory/20497/2 "2016-02-09T17:58:57Z")
no, inventory is flattened on read, so once in ansible there are no child groups/hosts, just hosts and it’s groups. ---
**Author:** ![Christophe\_Boivin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Christophe\_Boivin](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Christophe_Boivin)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2016, 7:52pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/retrieve-only-depth-1-children-for-a-group-in-inventory/20497/3 "2016-02-09T19:52:15Z")
Don’t you think it could be a nice add to keep somewhere accessible the “model” that is described in the inventory ?