Pillar init.sls file

TENANTS:
    admin:
      DESCRIPTION: "The AGN Administration Tenant"
    service:
      DESCRIPTION: "The AGN Service Tenant"


output from http://yaml-online-parser.appspot.com (converted to python)

{'TENANTS': {'admin': {'DESCRIPTION': 'The AGN Administration Tenant'},
             'service': {'DESCRIPTION': 'The AGN Service Tenant'}}}

output from python log from a saltstack module

OrderedDict([('admin', "{'DESCRIPTION': 'The AGN Administration Tenant'}"), ('service', "{'DESCRIPTION': 'The AGN Service Tenant'}")])

error from private saltstack module that works in 16.4 (when it wasn't interpreted as ordered dictionary)

 File "/var/cache/salt/minion/extmods/modules/agn_keystone.py", line 123, in create_required_tenants
    desc=tenants_dict[tenant]['DESCRIPTION']
TypeError: string indices must be integers, not str