From 1f8696f5c17e3fc72a2968466072b24786f8b050 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Kleint <jkleint@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:00:40 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fix inventory.get_hosts when hosts is a list.

---
 lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py | 4 +++-
 test/TestInventory.py             | 8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py
index 6e83064f83f..4026f86fa6f 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py
@@ -96,7 +96,9 @@ class Inventory(object):
         applied subsets.
         """
 
-        # process patterns        
+        # process patterns
+        if isinstance(pattern, list):
+            pattern = ';'.join(pattern)
         patterns = pattern.replace(";",":").split(":")
         positive_patterns = [ p for p in patterns if not p.startswith("!") ]
         negative_patterns = [ p for p in patterns if p.startswith("!") ]
diff --git a/test/TestInventory.py b/test/TestInventory.py
index ec71f54bc10..048126cc784 100644
--- a/test/TestInventory.py
+++ b/test/TestInventory.py
@@ -238,3 +238,11 @@ class TestInventory(unittest.TestCase):
                         'group_names': ['norse'],
                         'inventory_hostname': 'thor',
                         'inventory_hostname_short': 'thor'}
+
+    def test_hosts_list(self):
+        """Test the case when playbook 'hosts' var is a list."""
+        inventory = self.script_inventory()
+        host_names = sorted(['thor', 'loki', 'odin'])       # Not sure if sorting is in the contract or not
+        actual_hosts = inventory.get_hosts(host_names)
+        actual_host_names = [host.name for host in actual_hosts]
+        assert host_names == actual_host_names