together – merges lists into synchronized list

New in version 1.3.

Synopsis

  • Creates a list with the iterated elements of the supplied lists
  • To clarify with an example, [ ‘a’, ‘b’ ] and [ 1, 2 ] turn into [ (‘a’,1), (‘b’, 2) ]
  • This is basically the same as the ‘zip_longest’ filter and Python function
  • Any ‘unbalanced’ elements will be substituted with ‘None’

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Configuration Comments
_terms
- / required
list of lists to merge

Examples

- name: item.0 returns from the 'a' list, item.1 returns from the '1' list
  debug:
    msg: "{{ item.0 }} and {{ item.1 }}"
  with_together:
    - ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd']
    - [1, 2, 3, 4]

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this lookup:

Key Returned Description
_list
-
synchronized list


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