# ValueError: No closing quotation

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/valueerror-no-closing-quotation/23780>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [February 21, 2017, 6:14am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/valueerror-no-closing-quotation/23780 "2017-02-21T06:14:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mona\_Gopal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Mona\_Gopal](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mona_Gopal)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2017, 6:14am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/valueerror-no-closing-quotation/23780/1 "2017-02-21T06:14:34Z")

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Hi,

ansible-playbook -i hosts site.yml -vvvv -c paramiko  
Traceback (most recent call last):  
File “/usr/bin/ansible-playbook”, line 324, in   
sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))  
File “/usr/bin/ansible-playbook”, line 157, in main  
inventory = ansible.inventory.Inventory(options.inventory, vault\_password=vault\_pass)  
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/inventory/ **init**.py”, line 128, in **init**  
self.parser = InventoryParser(filename=host\_list)  
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/inventory/ini.py”, line 43, in **init**  
self.\_parse()  
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/inventory/ini.py”, line 47, in \_parse  
self.\_parse\_base\_groups()  
File “/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/ansible/inventory/ini.py”, line 108, in \_parse\_base\_groups  
tokens = shlex.split(line)  
File “/usr/lib64/python2.6/shlex.py”, line 279, in split  
return list(lex)  
File “/usr/lib64/python2.6/shlex.py”, line 269, in next  
token = self.get\_token()  
File “/usr/lib64/python2.6/shlex.py”, line 96, in get\_token  
raw = self.read\_token()  
File “/usr/lib64/python2.6/shlex.py”, line 172, in read\_token  
raise ValueError, “No closing quotation”  
ValueError: No closing quotation

Getting the above error while executing the playbook  
Ansible version is: 1.9.4  
Python version is: Python 2.6.6

Thanks in advance,  
Mona G

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**Author:** ![Dick\_Davies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Dick\_Davies](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dick_Davies)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2017, 2:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/valueerror-no-closing-quotation/23780/2 "2017-02-21T14:04:06Z")

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You have a syntax error in your site.yml, probably an unterminated string.

Try [http://yamllint.com](http://yamllint.com) maybe?