Fix deprecated imports in plugins/modules/sysctl.py

Replace deprecated module_utils imports:
- ansible.module_utils._text -> ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters
- ansible.module_utils.six.string_types -> str

Fixes #686

Co-authored-by: Cursor AI
Signed-off-by: Pavel Bar <pbar@redhat.com>

plugins/modules/sysctl.py

@@ -110,9 +110,8 @@ import re
 import tempfile
 
 from ansible.module_utils.basic import AnsibleModule
-from ansible.module_utils.six import string_types
+from ansible.module_utils.common.text.converters import to_native
 from ansible.module_utils.parsing.convert_bool import BOOLEANS_FALSE, BOOLEANS_TRUE
-from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native
 
 
 class SysctlModule(object):
@@ -224,7 +223,7 @@ class SysctlModule(object):
                 return '1'
             else:
                 return '0'
-        elif isinstance(value, string_types):
+        elif isinstance(value, str):
             if value.lower() in BOOLEANS_TRUE:
                 return '1'
             elif value.lower() in BOOLEANS_FALSE:

tests/sanity/ignore-2.21.txt

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 tests/utils/shippable/timing.py shebang
-plugins/modules/sysctl.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
 plugins/shell/csh.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
 plugins/shell/fish.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from
 tests/unit/mock/procenv.py pylint:ansible-bad-import-from