ansible/ohai

#!/usr/bin/python

# (c) 2012, Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@gmail.com>
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# requires 'ohai' to be installed

try:
    import json
except ImportError:
    import simplejson as json

import subprocess

cmd = subprocess.Popen("/usr/bin/ohai", stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
out, err = cmd.communicate()

# try to cleanup the JSON, for some reason facter --json doesn't need this hack
print json.dumps(json.loads(out))