From f140332ff6a1d654903c82e473a3bd29fae773ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael DeHaan <michael.dehaan@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 19:51:46 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Make it possible in the inventory file to have spaces in host
 variables

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

diff --git a/lib/ansible/inventory/ini.py b/lib/ansible/inventory/ini.py
index 8251d08697..fafe0b5023 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/inventory/ini.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/inventory/ini.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ from ansible.inventory.group import Group
 from ansible.inventory.expand_hosts import detect_range
 from ansible.inventory.expand_hosts import expand_hostname_range
 from ansible import errors
-
+import shlex
 
 class InventoryParser(object):
     """
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ class InventoryParser(object):
             elif line.startswith("#") or line == '':
                 pass
             elif active_group_name:
-                tokens = line.split()
+                tokens = shlex.split(line)
                 if len(tokens) == 0:
                     continue
                 hostname = tokens[0]