Python 2.7 (distro package) and 3.6 (pyenv managed) jobs run on Ubuntu 22.04.
More recent Pythons (distro or Github provided) run on 24.04.
fixes#1256
Ansible tasks that run locally (e.g. `connection: local`, `delegate_to:
localhost`) must now specify their `ansible_python_interpreter`, typically as
`{{ ansible_playbook_python }}`; otherwise the system Python on the controller
(e.g. `/usr/bin/python`) is likely to be used and this is often outside the
version range supported by the Ansible verison under test. If this occurs then
the symptom is often a failure to import a builtin from
`ansible.module_utils.six.moves`, e.g.
```
fatal: [target-centos6-1]: FAILED! => changed=true
cmd:
- ansible
- -m
- shell
- -c
- local
- -a
- whoami
- -i
- /tmp/mitogen_ci_ansibled3llejls/hosts
- test-targets
delta: '0:00:02.076385'
end: '2025-04-17 17:27:02.561500'
msg: non-zero return code
rc: 8
start: '2025-04-17 17:27:00.485115'
stderr: |-
stderr_lines: <omitted>
stdout: |-
An exception occurred during task execution. To see the full traceback,
use -vvv. The error was: from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import
map, reduce, shlex_quote
```
By switching to block style (`|`) with clip (no `-` or `+`) the failure
messages don't require quoting and gain a single trailing newline. This causes
Ansible to print them as block style, when using the yaml stdout callback
plugin. As a result the values have one less layer of quoting and quote
escaping, making them much easier to read.
Alex Willmer