ansible.builtin.symmetric_difference filter – different items from two lists
Note
This filter plugin is part of ansible-core and included in all Ansible
installations. In most cases, you can use the short
plugin name
symmetric_difference.
However, we recommend you use the Fully Qualified Collection Name (FQCN) ansible.builtin.symmetric_difference for easy linking to the
plugin documentation and to avoid conflicting with other collections that may have
the same filter plugin name.
Synopsis
Provide a unique list of all the elements unique to each list.
Items in the resulting list are returned in arbitrary order.
Input
This describes the input of the filter, the value before | ansible.builtin.symmetric_difference.
Parameter |
Comments |
|---|---|
A list. |
Keyword parameters
This describes keyword parameters of the filter. These are the values key1=value1, key2=value2 and so on in the following
example: input | ansible.builtin.symmetric_difference(key1=value1, key2=value2, ...)
Parameter |
Comments |
|---|---|
A list. |
See Also
See also
- ansible.builtin.difference filter plugin
the difference of one list from another.
- ansible.builtin.intersect filter plugin
intersection of lists.
- ansible.builtin.union filter plugin
union of lists.
- ansible.builtin.unique filter plugin
set of unique items of a list.
Examples
# return the elements of list1 not in list2 and the elements in list2 not in list1
# list1: [1, 2, 5, 1, 3, 4, 10]
# list2: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 11, 99]
{{ list1 | symmetric_difference(list2) }}
# => [10, 11, 99]
Return Value
Key |
Description |
|---|---|
A unique list of the elements from two lists that are unique to each one. Returned: success |