capture attribute errors for invalid class plugins

also switched to py3 safe to_str

lib/ansible/plugins/__init__.py

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ import warnings
 from collections import defaultdict
 
 from ansible import constants as C
+from ansible.utils.unicode import to_str
 
 try:
     from __main__ import display
@@ -247,7 +248,7 @@ class PluginLoader:
             try:
                 full_paths = (os.path.join(path, f) for f in os.listdir(path))
             except OSError as e:
-                display.warning("Error accessing plugin paths: %s" % str(e))
+                display.warning("Error accessing plugin paths: %s" % to_str(e))
 
             for full_path in (f for f in full_paths if os.path.isfile(f) and not f.endswith('__init__.py')):
                 full_name = os.path.basename(full_path)
@@ -354,7 +355,7 @@ class PluginLoader:
 
         class_only = kwargs.pop('class_only', False)
         all_matches = []
- 
+
         for i in self._get_paths():
             all_matches.extend(glob.glob(os.path.join(i, "*.py")))
 
@@ -366,7 +367,11 @@ class PluginLoader:
             if path not in self._module_cache:
                 self._module_cache[path] = self._load_module_source(name, path)
 
-            obj = getattr(self._module_cache[path], self.class_name)
+            try:
+                obj = getattr(self._module_cache[path], self.class_name)
+            except AttributeError as e:
+                display.warning("Skipping plugin (%s) as it seems to be invalid: %s" % (path, to_str(e)))
+
             if self.base_class:
                 # The import path is hardcoded and should be the right place,
                 # so we are not expecting an ImportError.