if isinstance(input, dict):

return {byteify(key):byteify(value) for key,value in input.iteritems()}

elif isinstance(input, list):

return [byteify(element) for element in input]

elif isinstance(input, unicode):

return input.encode('utf-8')

else:

arg = sys.argv[1:]

json_file = open(arg[0], 'r')

json_obj = json.load(json_file, encoding="latin-1")

json_obj = byteify(json_obj)

path = os.getcwd()

for base_object in json_obj:

if '.' not in base_object:

new_directory = "%s/inventory/%s" % (path, base_object)

if not os.path.exists(new_directory):

os.makedirs(new_directory)

for group_vars in json_obj['group_vars']:

stream = open("%s/inventory/group_vars/%s" % (path, group_vars), "w")

yaml.dump(json_obj['group_vars'][group_vars], stream, default_flow_style=False)

stream.close()

for host_vars in json_obj['host_vars']:

stream = open("%s/inventory/host_vars/%s" % (path, host_vars), "w")

yaml.dump(json_obj['host_vars'][host_vars], stream, default_flow_style=False)

stream.close()

stream = open("%s/inventory/hosts.ini" % path, "w")

stream.write( json_obj['hosts.ini'] )