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+---
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Open Networking Foundation <info@opennetworking.org>
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+- name: Install python2 (deprecated)
+  apt:
+    name:
+      - python2
+    state: present
+    update_cache: true
+    cache_valid_time: 3600