Always expect dicts for the tags param.

playbooks/library/ec2_lookup

@@ -96,30 +96,27 @@ def main():
             aws_secret_key=dict(aliases=['ec2_secret_key', 'secret_key'],
                                 no_log=True),
             aws_access_key=dict(aliases=['ec2_access_key', 'access_key']),
-            tags=dict(default=None),
+            tags=dict(default=None, type='dict'),
         )
     )
 
     tags_param = module.params.get('tags')
 
-    import pprint
-    debug_msg = "Before: tags_param type: {} - value: {}".format(type(tags_param), pprint.pformat(tags_param))
-    module.log(debug_msg)
+    # import pprint
+    # debug_msg = "Before: tags_param type: {} - value: {}".format(type(tags_param), pprint.pformat(tags_param))
+    # module.log(debug_msg)
 
-    if isinstance(tags_param, basestring):
-        tags_param = eval(tags_param)
+    # if isinstance(tags_param, basestring):
+    #     tags_param = eval(tags_param)
 
-    debug_msg += " - After: tags_param type: {} - value: {}".format(type(tags_param), pprint.pformat(tags_param))
-    module.log(debug_msg)
+    # debug_msg += " - After: tags_param type: {} - value: {}".format(type(tags_param), pprint.pformat(tags_param))
+    # module.log(debug_msg)
 
     tags = {}
-    if isinstance(tags_param, list):
-        for item in tags_param:
-            tags.update(item)
-    elif isinstance(tags_param, dict):
+    if isinstance(tags_param, dict):
         tags = tags_param
     else:
-        module.fail_json(msg="Invalid format for tags. {}".format(debug_msg))
+        module.fail_json(msg="Invalid format for tags.")
 
 
     aws_secret_key = module.params.get('aws_secret_key')