It seems that the python on the edison is missing the syslog library,
this has been part of core python for a long time and expected to be
there.
Even so, I patched ansible to allow for this 'custom' setup, so as of
commit c57200925f7fc3c77da9a0b671ef7328cad15d8d this should not error
out anymore. This is current devel and should be out with the 2.0
release.