#!/usr/bin/python # I am an Ansible new-style Python module. I leak state from each invocation # into a class variable and a global variable. from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule leak1 = [] class MyClass: leak2 = [] def main(): module = AnsibleModule(argument_spec={'name': {'type': 'str'}}) leak1.append(module.params['name']) MyClass.leak2.append(module.params['name']) module.exit_json( leak1=leak1, leak2=MyClass.leak2, ) if __name__ == '__main__': main()