We’ve used tab-characters in some of YAML-files here:
host: "foo" port: 8011 p: "bar"
For some reason, the same version of Ansible running the same playbook works just fine with these files for some users, but complains about “invalid characters” for others:
ERROR! Syntax Error while loading YAML. found character '\t' that cannot start any token The error appears to have been in '.../playbooks/roles/native-package/defaults/main.yml': line 1, column 8, but may be elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem. The offending line appears to be: tmpdir: >- ^ here There appears to be a tab character at the start of the line. YAML does not use tabs for formatting. Tabs should be replaced with spaces. For example: - name: update tooling vars: version: 1.2.3 # ^--- there is a tab there. Should be written as: - name: update tooling vars: version: 1.2.3 # ^--- all spaces here.
I’m not asking, whether tabs are “better” than spaces — but I’d like to understand the inconsistency…
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Source : Link , Question Author : Mikhail T. , Answer Author : Community