From b525eedb8eccb721bd981169ff26f1d09bdfe694 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Coca <brian.coca+git@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 15:42:57 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] less misleading message for when someone looks up vars for a
 host not in inventory

---
 lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py b/lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py
index fa2e8283f4..cbcd8186a2 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/inventory/__init__.py
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ class Inventory(object):
 
         host = self.get_host(hostname)
         if not host:
-            raise Exception("host not found: %s" % hostname)
+            raise AnsibleError("no vars as host is not in inventory: %s" % hostname)
         return host.get_vars()
 
     def get_host_variables(self, hostname, update_cached=False, vault_password=None):
@@ -520,7 +520,7 @@ class Inventory(object):
 
         host = self.get_host(hostname)
         if host is None:
-            raise AnsibleError("host not found: %s" % hostname)
+            raise AnsibleError("no host vars as host is not in inventory: %s" % hostname)
 
         vars = {}