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Expand Up @@ -64,6 +64,13 @@ Info and facts modules, are just like any other Ansible Module, with a few minor
5. They MUST NOT make any changes to the system.
6. They MUST document the :ref:`return fields<return_block>` and :ref:`examples<examples_block>`.

You can add your ``*_facts`` into ``ansible_facts`` field of the result as follows:

.. code-block:: python

module.exit_json(changed=False, ansible_facts=dict(new_facts))


The rest is just like creating a normal module.

Verifying your module code
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