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+# Copyright (c) 2017 Ansible Project
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
+
+from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+DOCUMENTATION = '''
+    name: advanced_host_list
+    version_added: "2.4"
+    short_description: Parses a 'host list' with ranges
+    description:
+        - Parses a host list string as a comma separated values of hosts and supports host ranges.
+        - This plugin only applies to inventory sources that are not paths and contain at least one comma.
+'''
+
+EXAMPLES = '''
+    # simple range
+    # ansible -i 'host[1:10],' -m ping
+
+    # still supports w/o ranges also
+    # ansible-playbook -i 'localhost,' play.yml
+'''
+
+import os
+
+from ansible.errors import AnsibleError, AnsibleParserError
+from ansible.module_utils._text import to_bytes, to_native, to_text
+from ansible.plugins.inventory import BaseInventoryPlugin
+
+
+class InventoryModule(BaseInventoryPlugin):
+
+    NAME = 'advanced_host_list'
+
+    def verify_file(self, host_list):
+
+        valid = False
+        b_path = to_bytes(host_list, errors='surrogate_or_strict')
+        if not os.path.exists(b_path) and ',' in host_list:
+            valid = True
+        return valid
+
+    def parse(self, inventory, loader, host_list, cache=True):
+        ''' parses the inventory file '''
+
+        super(InventoryModule, self).parse(inventory, loader, host_list)
+
+        try:
+            for h in host_list.split(','):
+                h = h.strip()
+                if h:
+                    try:
+                        (hostnames, port) = self._expand_hostpattern(h)
+                    except AnsibleError as e:
+                        self.display.vvv("Unable to parse address from hostname, leaving unchanged: %s" % to_text(e))
+                        hostnames = [h]
+                        port = None
+
+                    for host in hostnames:
+                        if host not in self.inventory.hosts:
+                            self.inventory.add_host(host, group='ungrouped', port=port)
+        except Exception as e:
+            raise AnsibleParserError("Invalid data from string, could not parse: %s" % to_native(e))