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-rw-r--r--changelogs/fragments/vars_lk.yml2
-rw-r--r--lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/vars.py14
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/vars_lk.yml b/changelogs/fragments/vars_lk.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..56f38a3510
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/vars_lk.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+ - correctly check hostvars for vars term https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41819
diff --git a/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/vars.py b/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/vars.py
index fd6d23b5b6..1b1ca60464 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/vars.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/vars.py
@@ -78,15 +78,15 @@ class LookupModule(LookupBase):
raise AnsibleError('Invalid setting identifier, "%s" is not a string, its a %s' % (term, type(term)))
try:
- if term in myvars:
+ try:
value = myvars[term]
- elif 'hostvars' in myvars and term in myvars['hostvars']:
- # maybe it is a host var?
- value = myvars['hostvars'][term]
- else:
- raise AnsibleUndefinedVariable('No variable found with this name: %s' % term)
- ret.append(self._templar.template(value, fail_on_undefined=True))
+ except KeyError:
+ try:
+ value = myvars['hostvars'][myvars['inventory_hostname']][term]
+ except KeyError:
+ raise AnsibleUndefinedVariable('No variable found with this name: %s' % term)
+ ret.append(self._templar.template(value, fail_on_undefined=True))
except AnsibleUndefinedVariable:
if default is not None:
ret.append(default)