From b5f3e84014f0c9fa88b5bd0ce5371d7306e22992 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Coca <brian.coca+git@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 22:45:01 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] now allows for empty vars sections, returns empty dict fixes
 #11532

---
 lib/ansible/playbook/play.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/playbook/play.py b/lib/ansible/playbook/play.py
index c3d9aea06ba..a7ea0c145db 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/playbook/play.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/playbook/play.py
@@ -162,6 +162,8 @@ class Play(Base, Taggable, Become):
                         raise ValueError
                     all_vars = combine_vars(all_vars, item)
                 return all_vars
+            elif ds is None:
+                return {}
             else:
                 raise ValueError
         except ValueError: