ansible/library/ohai

#!/usr/bin/python

# requires 'ohai' to be installed

try:
   import json
except ImportError:
   import simplejson as json

import subprocess

cmd = subprocess.Popen("/usr/bin/ohai", stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
out, err = cmd.communicate()

# try to cleanup the JSON, for some reason facter --json doesn't need this hack
print json.dumps(json.loads(out))