First implementation

ansible/roles/python/defaults/main.yml

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+---
+
+version: 3.6.6
+threads: 4

ansible/roles/python/tasks/main.yml

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+---
+
+- name: "Install python {{version}} runtime & build dependencies"
+  become: yes
+  apt: name={{item}}
+  with_items:
+    - build-essential
+    - tk-dev
+    - libncurses5-dev
+    - libncursesw5-dev
+    - libreadline6-dev
+    - libdb5.3-dev
+    - libgdbm-dev
+    - libsqlite3-dev
+    - libssl-dev
+    - libbz2-dev
+    - libexpat1-dev
+    - liblzma-dev
+    - libffi-dev
+    - uuid-dev
+    - zlib1g-dev
+
+- name: "Download python{{version}}"
+  get_url:
+    url: "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/{{version}}/Python-{{version}}.tar.xz"
+    dest: "/tmp/Python-{{version}}.tar.xz"
+
+- name: "Unarchive python{{version}}"
+  unarchive:
+    src: "/tmp/Python-{{version}}.tar.xz"
+    dest: "/tmp/"
+    copy: no
+    creates: "/tmp/Python-{{version}}"
+
+- name: "configure python{{version}} build"
+  command: ./configure --prefix=/opt/python-{{version}} --enable-optimizations
+  args:
+    chdir: "/tmp/Python-{{version}}"
+    creates: "/tmp/Python-{{version}}/Makefile"
+
+- name: "build python{{version}}"
+  # not using make module to be able to use -j and creates option to fully skip step
+  command: make -j{{threads}}
+  args:
+    chdir: "/tmp/Python-{{version}}"
+    creates: "/tmp/Python-{{version}}/python"
+
+- name: "install python{{version}}"
+  become: yes
+  make:
+    chdir: "/tmp/Python-{{version}}"
+    target: altinstall