test-module fails during arg parsing with "zero length field name in format"

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I’m just starting to develop my first module and test-module gives me an error during arg parsing. So I tried running test-module against ping.py and got the same error. See below. My first guess is it’s a python 2.6.6 problem. Any other ideas?

ansible/hacking/test-module -m ansible/lib/ansible/modules/core/system/ping.py

Traceback (most recent call last):
File “ansible/hacking/test-module”, line 207, in
main()
File “ansible/hacking/test-module”, line 189, in main
options, args = parse()
File “ansible/hacking/test-module”, line 67, in parse
default=‘python={}’.format(sys.executable))
ValueError: zero length field name in format

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It is a 2.6 issue. Put a 0 in the {}

Such as:

default=‘python={0}’.format(sys.executable))