title: Executing ansible playbook AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'set_playbook_basedir'
body: <p><strong>Hello,</strong> </p>
  
  <p><strong><em>I have a two part question.</em></strong></p>
  
  <p><strong>First Part:</strong>
  I'm trying to execute a playbook from a python script that downloads a playbook and executes it. I know the playbook works because i've tested it. However, when i try to execute the playbook with python code I get a <em>no attribute error 'set_playbook_basedir'</em> not quite sure where this is coming from. Here is the full error output.</p>
  
  <pre><code>[ec2-user@ip-172-30-199-190 scripts]$ sudo python /var/lib/cloud/instance/scripts/part-001
  /usr/lib64/python2.7/dist-packages/Crypto/Util/number.py:57: PowmInsecureWarning: Not using mpz_powm_sec.  You should rebuild using libgmp &gt;= 5 to avoid timing attack vulnerability.
    _warn("Not using mpz_powm_sec.  You should rebuild using libgmp &gt;= 5 to avoid timing attack vulnerability.", PowmInsecureWarning)
  /bin/bash: line 0: export: `=': not a valid identifier
  /bin/bash: line 0: export: `3': not a valid identifier
  ~/vision_provis/storm.yml
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/var/lib/cloud/instance/scripts/part-001", line 71, in &lt;module&gt;
      fatal: destination path 'vision_provis' already exists and is not an empty directory.
  check=True)
    File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ansible/playbook/__init__.py", line 169, in __init__
      self.inventory.set_playbook_basedir(self.basedir)
  AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'set_playbook_basedir'
  
  
  #!/usr/bin/python
  import ansible.runner
  from ansible.playbook import PlayBook
  from ansible import inventory
  from ansible import callbacks
  import json
  import subprocess
  import os
  from ansible import utils
  import time
  
  def shell_command_execute(cmd):
      try:
          subprocess.Popen(['/bin/bash', '-c', cmd])
      except:
          print 'There seems to be an error'
  repo = "https://github.com/zukeru/vision_provis.git"
  playbook = "storm.yml"
  
  
  echo_bash_profile = "export CLOUD_ENVIRONMENT=integration|export CLOUD_MONITOR_BUCKET=0|export CLOUD_APP=ES-test-storm-deploy-DEV--_yV_cyE-|export CLOUD_STACK=infra|export CLOUD_CLUSTER=0|export CLOUD_AUTO_SCALE_GROUP=0|export CLOUD_LAUNCH_CONFIG=0|export EC2_REGION=us-west-2|export CLOUD_DEV_PHASE=0|export CLOUD_REVISION=0|export CLOUD_DOMAIN=0|export SG_GROUP=ES-test-storm-deploy-DEV--qtv6a_Uj"
  
  for commands in echo_bash_profile.split('|'):
      command_to_send = 'echo "' + commands + '" &gt;&gt; /home/ec2-user/.bash_profile'
      shell_command_execute(commands)
      shell_command_execute(command_to_send)
  
  var_user_data = "export SHARDS = 3"
  
  for commands in var_user_data.split('|'):
      echo_bash_profile_passed = 'echo "' + commands  + '" &gt;&gt; /home/ec2-user/.bash_profile'
      shell_command_execute(commands)
      shell_command_execute(echo_bash_profile_passed)
  
  command_remove = 'rm -rf /home/ec2-user/'+repo
  shell_command_execute(command_remove)
  
  command = 'cd /home/ec2-user/; git clone ' + repo
  shell_command_execute(command)
  
  folder = repo.split('/')[4].replace('.git','')
  full_path = '/home/ec2-user/' + folder + '/' + playbook
  
  time.sleep(6)
  
  # setting callbacks
  stats = callbacks.AggregateStats()
  playbook_cb = callbacks.PlaybookCallbacks(verbose=utils.VERBOSITY)
  runner_cb = callbacks.PlaybookRunnerCallbacks(stats, verbose=utils.VERBOSITY)
  
  print full_path
  # creating the playbook instance to run, based on "test.yml" file
  pb = PlayBook(playbook = full_path,
                                 stats = stats,
                                 callbacks = playbook_cb,
                                 runner_callbacks = runner_cb,
                                 inventory = "localhost",
                                 check=True)
  # running the playbook
  pr = pb.run()
  
  # print the summary of results for each host
  #print json.dumps(pr, sort_keys=True, indent=4, separators=(',', ': '))
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong><em>The Second Problem is:</em></strong></p>
  
  <p>This script is actually being passed as base64 encoded aws user-data and its executing but it doesn't seem to recognize that it is python. Here is the cloud-init-output.log</p>
  
  <pre><code>Complete!
  Cloud-init v. 0.7.6 running 'modules:final' at Wed, 29 Jul 2015 00:17:16 +0000. Up 103.79 seconds.
  /var/lib/cloud/instance/scripts/part-001: line 3: import: command not found
  /var/lib/cloud/instance/scripts/part-001: line 4: import: command not found
  /var/lib/cloud/instance/scripts/part-001: line 5: import: command not found
  /var/lib/cloud/instance/scripts/part-001: line 6: import: command not found
  /var/lib/cloud/instance/scripts/part-001: line 7: import: command not found
  /var/lib/cloud/instance/scripts/part-001: line 8: import: command not found
  /var/lib/cloud/instance/scripts/part-001: line 10: syntax error near unexpected token `('
  /var/lib/cloud/instance/scripts/part-001: line 10: `def shell_command_execute(cmd):'
  Jul 29 00:17:16 cloud-init[1958]: util.py[WARNING]: Failed running /var/lib/cloud/instance/scripts/part-001 [2]
  Jul 29 00:17:16 cloud-init[1958]: cc_scripts_user.py[WARNING]: Failed to run module scripts-user (scripts in /var/lib/cloud/instance/scripts)
  Jul 29 00:17:16 cloud-init[1958]: util.py[WARNING]: Running module scripts-user (&lt;module 'cloudinit.config.cc_scripts_user' from '/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/cloudinit/config/cc_scripts_user.pyc'&gt;) failed
  Jul 29 00:17:16 cloud-init[1958]: templater.py[WARNING]: Cheetah not available as the default renderer for unknown template, reverting to the basic renderer.
  Cloud-init v. 0.7.6 finished at Wed, 29 Jul 2015 00:17:16 +0000. Datasource DataSourceEc2.  Up 103.97 seconds
  </code></pre>