Find Ansible's interpreter also behind python-exec and wrapper scripts

On Gentoo, the shebang of `ansible-playbook` is the python-exec
dispatcher (`#!/usr/bin/python-exec2c`), which bin/ansible-python.sh
took for an interpreter, because its name starts with `python`.
python-exec only runs the programs it wraps, so every `just run…`
recipe failed with "no python-exec wrapped executable found".

Now only names like `python`, `python3` or `python3.14` are trusted.
For anything else (python-exec, wrapper scripts as on Nix), Ansible is
asked which interpreter it runs on (`ansible-playbook --version`),
before falling back to `python3`, which may lack PyYAML (e.g. in an
active virtualenv).

Same as https://github.com/mother-of-all-self-hosting/mash-playbook/commit/a685940a

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Slavi Pantaleev
2026-10-25 13:33:34 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5
parent c4eee6cb62
commit 415d784ca0
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@@ -11,12 +11,12 @@
# where the system's `python3` may lack it.
#
# The interpreter is taken from the first line (shebang) of `ansible-playbook`.
# If that is not a Python interpreter (e.g. `ansible-playbook` is a wrapper script), or Ansible is not installed,
# `python3` is used.
# If that is not a Python interpreter (e.g. `ansible-playbook` is a wrapper script, or Gentoo's python-exec),
# Ansible is asked which interpreter it runs on. If that fails too, or Ansible is not installed, `python3` is used.
set -eu
python=python3
interpreter=
ansible_playbook_path=$(command -v ansible-playbook 2>/dev/null || true)
if [ -n "$ansible_playbook_path" ] && [ -f "$ansible_playbook_path" ]; then
@@ -30,15 +30,26 @@ EOF
if [ "$(basename "$interpreter")" = "env" ]; then
interpreter=${next_word:-}
fi
case "$(basename "${interpreter:-none}")" in
python*)
if command -v "$interpreter" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
python=$interpreter
fi
;;
esac
;;
esac
# Only names like `python`, `python3` or `python3.14` are interpreters (`python-exec2c` is not)
case "$(basename "${interpreter:-none}")" in
python | python[0-9] | python[0-9].[0-9]*) ;;
*) interpreter= ;;
esac
if [ -z "$interpreter" ] || ! command -v "$interpreter" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
# The interpreter ends a line like: ` python version = 3.14.0 (main, …) [GCC …] (/usr/bin/python3.14)`
interpreter=$("$ansible_playbook_path" --version 2>/dev/null \
| sed -n 's/^ *python version = .*(\([^()]*\))$/\1/p' | head -n 1) || true
fi
fi
if [ -n "$interpreter" ] && command -v "$interpreter" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
python=$interpreter
else
python=python3
fi
exec "$python" "$@"