community.general.keyring import keyring FAILED!

[docdyhr]

fatal: [localhost]: FAILED! => {"msg": "An unhandled exception occurred while running the lookup plugin 'community.general.keyring'. Error was a <class 'ansible.errors.AnsibleError'>, original message: Can't LOOKUP(keyring): missing required python library 'keyring'"}

Even when keyring is correctly installed ansible cannot reference the python keyring library with 'import keyring' from inside community.general.keyring. It seems that ansible has problems with python libraries installed outside of the ansible context.

[docdyhr]

Could it be an issue with python paths / different versions of python installed on macOS?

[docdyhr]

Do 'python3' and 'sudo python3' call the same python 3 packages?

[docdyhr]

Tested community.general.keyring on a pure linux setup and it worked like a charm! So it's a macOS / python /
ansible issue then!

[docdyhr]

When testet on another mac - it worked too!

[docdyhr]

Installed python3 from python.org on top of the brew version the python.org on macOS on the Mac with problems and it some how worked. Added export PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.9/bin:${PATH}" to my zsh profile. But I am still not entirely sure why macOS needs the python3 version from python.org in order to work properly with import statements from python libs in ansible.

[sargunv]

I ran into this issue and sort of got past it by adding the following to my playbook before I use keyring:

- ansible.builtin.pip:
    executable: /opt/homebrew/opt/ansible/libexec/bin/pip3
    name: keyring
    state: latest

However now I get this error when I'm trying to use it in ansible:

This is how I'm invoking it:

- ansible.builtin.set_fact:
    example_pw: "{{ pw_input or lookup('keyring', 'example user') }}"

[sargunv]

Invoking the keyring CLI manually works fine:

/opt/homebrew/opt/ansible/libexec/bin/keyring get example user