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
```
macOS 11 is not longer an available runner on Azure Devops. The minimum is now
macOS 12. This runner does not have Python 2.7 installed, so running them
would require a custom install - which I'm declaring too much effort for too
little gain.
refs #1090
* ansible: use unicode_literals everywhere since it only needs to be
compatible back to 2.6.
* compat/collections.py: delete this entirely and rip out the parts of
functools that require it.
* Introduce serializable Kwargs dict subclass that translates keys to
Unicode on instantiation.
* enable_debug_logging() must set _v/_vv globals.
* cStringIO does not exist in 3.x.
* Treat IOLogger and LogForwarder input as latin-1.
* Avoid ResourceWarnings in first stage by explicitly closing fps.
* Fix preamble_size.py syntax errors.
Alex Willmer