Merge pull request #7126 from mscherer/better_error_message_empty_task

Give more information when a task is empty

lib/ansible/playbook/play.py

@@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ class Play(object):
             included_additional_conditions = list(old_conditions)
 
             if not isinstance(x, dict):
-                raise errors.AnsibleError("expecting dict; got: %s" % x)
+                raise errors.AnsibleError("expecting dict; got: %s, error in %s" % (x, original_file))
 
             # evaluate sudo vars for current and child tasks 
             included_sudo_vars = {}