From 9280396e1991f2365c1df79cff83f323b0908c7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sloane Hertel <19572925+s-hertel@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 11:06:59 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Fix error message for non-str hosts in yaml inventory
 (#77544)

---
 lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/yaml.py | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/yaml.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/yaml.py
index 409970cf3d0..9d5812f68a6 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/yaml.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/yaml.py
@@ -174,6 +174,10 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseFileInventoryPlugin):
         '''
         Each host key can be a pattern, try to process it and add variables as needed
         '''
-        (hostnames, port) = self._expand_hostpattern(host_pattern)
-
+        try:
+            (hostnames, port) = self._expand_hostpattern(host_pattern)
+        except TypeError:
+            raise AnsibleParserError(
+                f"Host pattern {host_pattern} must be a string. Enclose integers/floats in quotation marks."
+            )
         return hostnames, port