Mostly i was thinking for the use of in templates, the only other thing i can think of is using 'intermediate vars' to keep reusable expressions and then creating their input when needed:
- play: vars: merged_list: "{{ (lookup('vars', *query('varnames', merge_pattern$')) + [testlist_initial_value]) | flatten(levels=merge_flatten_levels|default(1)) }}" .... - name: also works with 'vars' in other scopes, using set_fact to get 'static value' set_fact: mylist: '{{merged_list}}' vars: testlist_initial_value: [10,11] merge_pattern: '^.+_merge_list' a_merge_list: [1,2,3] b_merge_list: [4,5,6] -- ---------- Brian Coca -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Development" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-devel/CACVha7c1aBURhLfx9sNYcXn_gqAodJdEcyC2KBKQxu%2BreUCYzA%40mail.gmail.com.