wrapper to find Ansible project's root path. Useful when you can't change working directory to run playbook

ansible-playbook-wrapper.py

#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
import os
from subprocess import call

ansible_args = sys.argv[1:]

# Finding playbook file arg
try:
	ansible_playbook = [arg for arg in ansible_args if '.yml' in arg][0]
except IndexError:
	call(['ansible-playbook'] + ansible_args)
	os._exit(1)

playbook_dir = os.path.dirname(ansible_playbook)
current_search_path = playbook_dir
working_dir = None

while current_search_path != '/':
	if os.path.isfile(current_search_path + '/.projectroot'):
		working_dir = current_search_path
		break;

	current_search_path = os.path.abspath(current_search_path + '/../')

# Changing working directory if we found working_dir
if working_dir is not None: os.chdir(working_dir)

call(['ansible-playbook'] + ansible_args)