Using Python modules

Ansible intends to allow users to write modules in any language. Writing the module in Python, however, has its own advantages. You can take advantage of Ansible's libraries to shorten your code, an advantage not available for modules in other languages. Parsing user arguments, handling errors, and returning the required values becomes easier with the help of the Ansible libraries. We will see two examples for a custom Python module, one with and one without using the Ansible library, to give you a glimpse of how custom modules work. Make sure you organize your directory structure as mentioned in the previous section before creating the module. The first example creates a module named check_user. To do so, we will need to create the check_user file in the library folder within the Ansible top-level directory, with the following content:

    #!/usr/bin/env python 
 
    import pwd 
    import sys 
    import shlex 
    import json 
 
    def main(): 
        # Parsing...