["python","python-3.x","ansible","ansible-2.x"]
Unexpected Exception: name 'basestring' is not defined when invoking ansible2

I'm trying to execute ansible2 commands... When I do: ansible-playbook -vvv -i my/inventory my/playbook.yml I get: Unexpected Exception: name 'basestring' is not defined the full traceback was: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/ansible-playbook", line 85, in <module> sys.exit(cli.run()) File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/ansible/cli/playbook.py", line 150, in run results = pbex.run() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/ansible/executor/playbook_executor.py", line 87, in run self._tqm.load_callbacks() File "/usr/local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/ansible/executor/task_queue_manager.py", line 149, in load_callbacks elif isinstance(self._stdout_callback, basestring): NameError: name 'basestring' is not defined Here is ansible --version: ansible 2.0.0.2 config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg configured module search path = Default w/o overrides And here is python --version Python 3.4.3
Ansible below version 2.5 requires Python 2.6 or 2.7 on the control host: Control Node Requirements basestring is no longer available in Python 3. From What’s New In Python 3.0: The builtin basestring abstract type was removed. Use str instead. The str and bytes types don’t have functionality enough in common to warrant a shared base class. The 2to3 tool (see below) replaces every occurrence of basestring with str. So the solution is to either upgrade Ansible or downgrade Python.