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+# (c) 2012-17 Ansible Project
+# GNU General Public License v3.0+ (see COPYING or https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt)
+
+# Make coding more python3-ish
+from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
+
+__metaclass__ = type
+
+DOCUMENTATION = """
+    name: list
+    author: Ansible Core Team
+    version_added: "2.0"
+    short_description: simply returns what it is given.
+    description:
+      - this is mostly a noop, to be used as a with_list loop when you dont want the content transformed in any way.
+"""
+
+EXAMPLES = """
+- name: unlike with_items you will get 3 items from this loop, the 2nd one being a list
+  ansible.builtin.debug: var=item
+  with_list:
+    - 1
+    - [2,3]
+    - 4
+"""
+
+RETURN = """
+  _list:
+    description: basically the same as you fed in
+    type: list
+    elements: raw
+"""
+
+from collections.abc import Sequence
+
+from ansible.plugins.lookup import LookupBase
+from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
+
+
+class LookupModule(LookupBase):
+
+    def run(self, terms, **kwargs):
+        if not isinstance(terms, Sequence):
+            raise AnsibleError("with_list expects a list")
+        return terms