ansible/test/integration/targets/setup_pexpect/tasks/main.yml

- name: Copy constraints file
  copy:
    src: constraints.txt
    dest: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/pexpect-constraints.txt"

- name: Install pexpect with --user
  pip:
    name: pexpect
    extra_args: '--user --constraint "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/pexpect-constraints.txt"'
    state: present
  ignore_errors: yes  # fails when inside a virtual environment
  register: pip_user

- name: Install pexpect
  pip:
    name: pexpect
    extra_args: '--constraint "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/pexpect-constraints.txt"'
    state: present
  when: pip_user is failed