Python Ansible Role

Installs Python, Python3 and related packages

Requirements

This role requires Ansible 2.0 or higher.

Role Variables

Defaults

- name: python2_install
  desc: Flag determining if python 2 should be installed
  default: True
- name: python3_install
  desc: Flag determining if python 3 should be installed
  default: True
- name: python3_version
  desc: Target python3 version to install (if not the default latest for distro)
  default: 3
- name: python_pip_executable
  desc: Target pip executable to use for package installations (pip3 for python3 installs)
  default: pip3
- name: python_pip_packages_extra
  desc: List of pip packages to install on top of base python packages required for development
  default: []

Vars

These are not meant to be modified

- name: python3_package
  desc: Target Python3 executable apt package
  value: "python{{ python3_version }}"
- name: python2_packages
  desc: Python2 development packages
  value: 
      - python
      - python-dev
      - python-pip
- name: python3_packages
  desc: Python3 development packages
  value: 
      - "{{ python3_package }}"
      - python3-dev
      - python3-pip
- name: python_pip_packages
  desc: Python pip packages to install alongside base executable
  value: 
      - virtualenv
      - setuptools
      - pipenv
      - "{{ python_pip_packages_extra }}"

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

Install Python2 & Python3

- hosts: all
  roles:
    - ansible-role-python

Install Python2 only

- hosts: all
  vars:
      python3_install: False
  roles:
    - ansible-role-python

Testing

Tests can be executed with local vagrantfile using the command. This mounts the role directory in the guest and executes the role via the playbook in tests/ folder.

vagrant up