I can't get Selectaddr to display attributes from my dict - ansible

Question

We're running ansible 2.9.27 on Red Hat Linux 7.9. In my playbook, I have the following code:
- name: DEBUG THIS THING1
debug:
msg: "FOUND HOME: {{ found_service_accounts['svclinux']['home'] }}"
- name: DEBUG THIS THING2
debug:
msg: "FOUND: {{ found_service_accounts['svclinux']['home'] | selectattr('path', 'defined') | list }}"
The output looks like this:
TASK [service_accounts : DEBUG THIS THING1] ***************************************************************************
ok: [myhost.example.com] => {
"msg": "FOUND HOME: {u'owner': u'svclinux', u'path': u'/home/svclinux', u'group': u'svc-linux', u'permissions': u'755'}"
}
TASK [service_accounts : DEBUG THIS THING2] ***************************************************************************
ok: [myhost.example.com] => {
"msg": "FOUND: []"
}
I can't figure out why Ansible isn't printing the path attribute of my home. It just prints the empty list. Can you see my obvious mistake?
Thanks.
Note: found_service_accounts is a dict that was set as follows. The homes.results...stdout_lines[n] are simple strings gleaned from a shell command:
- name: set found_service_accounts
set_fact:
found_service_accounts: |
{% set j2fsa = { } %}
{%- for user in service_account_names -%}
{% set _ = j2fsa.update(
{ user : { 'home' : { 'path' : homes.results[loop.index0].stdout_lines[0],
'owner' : homes.results[loop.index0].stdout_lines[1],
'group' : homes.results[loop.index0].stdout_lines[2],
'permissions' : homes.results[loop.index0].stdout_lines[3]
},
'ssh_subdirectory' : {
'owner' : ssh_subdir.results[loop.index0].stdout_lines[0],
'permissions' : ssh_subdir.results[loop.index0].stdout_lines[1]
}
}
})
%}
{%- endfor %}
{{ j2fsa }}
and service_account_names is just a list like: [ 'svclinux' ]

Answer 1

found_service_accounts['svclinux']['home'] is a dictionary, not a list. You should directly access the value of path:
- name: DEBUG THIS THING2
debug:
msg: "FOUND: {{ found_service_accounts['svclinux']['home']['path'] }}"
What happens in your original attempt is that iterating over a dictionary returns just the dictionary keys (["owner", "path", "group", "permissions"]), and strings do not have an attribute named path.