From 0bda419f66fa761408533228c36a9d2fbccc5e8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Ryan S. Brown" <sb@ryansb.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 11:33:29 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Allow AWSRetry class to be created without boto3/botocore
 installed

---
 lib/ansible/module_utils/ec2.py | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/ansible/module_utils/ec2.py b/lib/ansible/module_utils/ec2.py
index 4e654c8f22..f9f18c1227 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/module_utils/ec2.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/module_utils/ec2.py
@@ -58,8 +58,18 @@ class AnsibleAWSError(Exception):
     pass
 
 
+def _botocore_exception_maybe():
+    """
+    Allow for boto3 not being installed when using these utils by wrapping
+    botocore.exceptions instead of assigning from it directly.
+    """
+    if HAS_BOTO3:
+        return botocore.exceptions.ClientError
+    return type(None)
+
+
 class AWSRetry(CloudRetry):
-    base_class = botocore.exceptions.ClientError
+    base_class = _botocore_exception_maybe()
 
     @staticmethod
     def status_code_from_exception(error):