From 3c3e9c3b36cba0aafe8d64e33b9aea41c85b2211 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mechaxl <mechaxl@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 13:06:31 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fixing policy sorting for Python 3

---
 lib/ansible/module_utils/ec2.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/ec2.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/ec2.py
index d556d33a65..38c8814b5e 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/ec2.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/ec2.py
@@ -570,7 +570,9 @@ def sort_json_policy_dict(policy_dict):
             else:
                 checked_list.append(item)
 
-        checked_list.sort()
+        # Sort list. If it's a list of dictionaries, sort by tuple of key-value
+        # pairs, since Python 3 doesn't allow comparisons such as `<` between dictionaries.
+        checked_list.sort(key=lambda x: sorted(x.items()) if isinstance(x, dict) else x)
         return checked_list
 
     ordered_policy_dict = {}