title: "msg": "winrm or requests is not installed: No module named xmltodict"
body: <p>I have ansible version 2.4.2. Trying to integrate Ansible contorl machine (Linux) with Windows. Checked and installed all pre-requesties.</p>
  
  <p>Getting below error while connecting to windows machine</p>
  
  <pre><code>(ansible) -bash-4.2$ ansible *&lt;windowsservername&gt;* -i inventory -m win_ping
  *windowsservername* | FAILED! =&gt; {
      "msg": "winrm or requests is not installed: No module named xmltodict"
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>PFB the packages</p>
  
  <pre><code>(ansible) -bash-4.2$ pip freeze | grep -i xmltodict
  xmltodict==0.11.0
  
  (ansible) -bash-4.2$ pip freeze | grep -i winrm
  pywinrm==0.3.0
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am new to ansible, please help on this issue.</p>