Using Ansible set_fact to create a dictionary from register results

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I think I got there in the end.

The task is like this:

- name: Populate genders
  set_fact:
    genders: "{{ genders|default({}) | combine( {item.item.name: item.stdout} ) }}"
  with_items: "{{ people.results }}"

It loops through each of the dicts (item) in the people.results array, each time creating a new dict like {Bob: "male"}, and combine()s that new dict in the genders array, which ends up like:

{
    "Bob": "male",
    "Thelma": "female"
}

It assumes the keys (the name in this case) will be unique.

I then realised I actually wanted a list of dictionaries, as it seems much easier to loop through using with_items:

- name: Populate genders
  set_fact:
    genders: "{{ genders|default([]) + [ {'name': item.item.name, 'gender': item.stdout} ] }}"
  with_items: "{{ people.results }}"

This keeps combining the existing list with a list containing a single dict. We end up with a genders array like this:

[
    {'name': 'Bob', 'gender': 'male'},
    {'name': 'Thelma', 'gender': 'female'}
]

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