diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/inventory_ini.yml b/changelogs/fragments/inventory_ini.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..fffc5d42668
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/inventory_ini.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+---
+bugfixes:
+- inventory_ini - handle SyntaxWarning while parsing ini file in inventory (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/81457).
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/ini.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/ini.py
index e1c144e43ee..1ff4bf167d5 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/ini.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/inventory/ini.py
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ host4 # same host as above, but member of 2 groups, will inherit vars from both
 
 import ast
 import re
+import warnings
 
 from ansible.inventory.group import to_safe_group_name
 from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseFileInventoryPlugin
@@ -341,9 +342,11 @@ class InventoryModule(BaseFileInventoryPlugin):
         (int, dict, list, unicode string, etc).
         '''
         try:
-            v = ast.literal_eval(v)
+            with warnings.catch_warnings():
+                warnings.simplefilter("ignore", SyntaxWarning)
+                v = ast.literal_eval(v)
         # Using explicit exceptions.
-        # Likely a string that literal_eval does not like. We wil then just set it.
+        # Likely a string that literal_eval does not like. We will then just set it.
         except ValueError:
             # For some reason this was thought to be malformed.
             pass
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/inventory_ini/inventory.ini b/test/integration/targets/inventory_ini/inventory.ini
index a0c99adee06..a5de42119ff 100644
--- a/test/integration/targets/inventory_ini/inventory.ini
+++ b/test/integration/targets/inventory_ini/inventory.ini
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+gitlab-runner-01            ansible_host=gitlab-runner-01.internal.example.net  ansible_user=root
+
 [local]
 testhost ansible_connection=local ansible_become=no ansible_become_user=ansibletest1
 
diff --git a/test/integration/targets/inventory_ini/runme.sh b/test/integration/targets/inventory_ini/runme.sh
index 81bf1475904..919e18845d4 100755
--- a/test/integration/targets/inventory_ini/runme.sh
+++ b/test/integration/targets/inventory_ini/runme.sh
@@ -3,3 +3,6 @@
 set -eux
 
 ansible-playbook -v -i inventory.ini test_ansible_become.yml
+
+ansible-inventory -v -i inventory.ini --list 2> out
+test "$(grep -c 'SyntaxWarning' out)" -eq 0