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+# (c) 2012, Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@gmail.com>
+#
+# This file is part of Ansible
+#
+# Ansible is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# Ansible is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with Ansible.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
+from ansible.plugins.lookup import LookupBase
+from ansible.utils.listify import listify_lookup_plugin_terms
+
+class LookupModule(LookupBase):
+
+    def __lookup_variabless(self, terms, variables):
+        results = []
+        for x in terms:
+            intermediate = listify_lookup_plugin_terms(x, variables, loader=self._loader)
+            results.append(intermediate)
+        return results
+
+    def run(self, terms, variables=None, **kwargs):
+
+        terms = self.__lookup_variabless(terms, variables)
+
+        my_list = terms[:]
+        my_list.reverse()
+        result = []
+        if len(my_list) == 0:
+            raise AnsibleError("with_nested requires at least one element in the nested list")
+        result = my_list.pop()
+        while len(my_list) > 0:
+            result2 = self._combine(result, my_list.pop())
+            result  = result2
+        new_result = []
+        for x in result:
+            new_result.append(self._flatten(x))
+        return new_result
+
+