From 95a977cfc948cbe528f5dea29cd6fcca1f504b11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brian Coca <briancoca+dev@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:10:49 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] now cleanly catches traceback that occurs when running newer
 simplejson with older python interpreter. Signed-off-by: Brian Coca
 <briancoca+dev@gmail.com>

---
 lib/ansible/module_common.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_common.py b/lib/ansible/module_common.py
index 825a3bcf65..453690d48e 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_common.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_common.py
@@ -75,6 +75,9 @@ except ImportError:
     except ImportError:
         sys.stderr.write('Error: ansible requires a json module, none found!')
         sys.exit(1)
+    except SyntaxError:
+        sys.stderr.write('SyntaxError: probably due to json and python being for different versions')
+        sys.exit(1)
 
 HAVE_SELINUX=False
 try: