INI: values with spaces can be single or double quoted (#77369)

docs/docsite/rst/user_guide/intro_inventory.rst

@@ -274,8 +274,8 @@ In the above example, running Ansible against the host alias "jumper" will conne
 .. note::
    Values passed in the INI format using the ``key=value`` syntax are interpreted differently depending on where they are declared:
 
-   * When declared inline with the host, INI values are interpreted as Python literal structures           (strings, numbers, tuples, lists, dicts, booleans, None). Host lines accept multiple ``key=value`` parameters per line. Therefore they need a way to indicate that a space is part of a value rather than a separator.
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+   * When declared inline with the host, INI values are interpreted as Python literal structures           (strings, numbers, tuples, lists, dicts, booleans, None). Host lines accept multiple ``key=value`` parameters per line. Therefore they need a way to indicate that a space is part of a value rather than a separator. Values that contain whitespace can be quoted (single or double). See the `Python shlex parsing rules`_ for details.
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    * When declared in a ``:vars`` section, INI values are interpreted as strings. For example ``var=FALSE`` would create a string equal to 'FALSE'. Unlike host lines, ``:vars`` sections accept only a single entry per line, so everything after the ``=`` must be the value for the entry.
 
    * If a variable value set in an INI inventory must be a certain type (for example, a string or a boolean value), always specify the type with a filter in your task. Do not rely on types set in INI inventories when consuming variables.
@@ -284,6 +284,8 @@ In the above example, running Ansible against the host alias "jumper" will conne
 
 Generally speaking, this is not the best way to define variables that describe your system policy. Setting variables in the main inventory file is only a shorthand. See :ref:`splitting_out_vars` for guidelines on storing variable values in individual files in the 'host_vars' directory.
 
+.. _Python shlex parsing rules: https://docs.python.org/3/library/shlex.html#parsing-rules
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 .. _group_variables:
 
 Assigning a variable to many machines: group variables