https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/reference_appendices/module_utils.html

get_bin_path.py

# Copyright (c) 2018, Ansible Project
# Simplified BSD License (see licenses/simplified_bsd.txt or https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause)

#from __future__ import (absolute_import, division, print_function)
#__metaclass__ = type

import os

#from ansible.module_utils.common.file import is_executable


def get_bin_path(arg, opt_dirs=None, required=None):
    '''
    Find system executable in PATH. Raises ValueError if executable is not found.
    Optional arguments:
       - required:  [Deprecated] Prior to 2.10, if executable is not found and required is true it raises an Exception.
                    In 2.10 and later, an Exception is always raised. This parameter will be removed in 2.14.
       - opt_dirs:  optional list of directories to search in addition to PATH
    In addition to PATH and opt_dirs, this function also looks through /sbin, /usr/sbin and /usr/local/sbin. A lot of
    modules, especially for gathering facts, depend on this behaviour.
    If found return full path, otherwise raise ValueError.
    '''
    opt_dirs = [] if opt_dirs is None else opt_dirs

    sbin_paths = ['/sbin', '/usr/sbin', '/usr/local/sbin']
    paths = []
    for d in opt_dirs:
        if d is not None and os.path.exists(d):
            paths.append(d)
    paths += os.environ.get('PATH', '').split(os.pathsep)
    bin_path = None
    # mangle PATH to include /sbin dirs
    for p in sbin_paths:
        if p not in paths and os.path.exists(p):
            paths.append(p)
    for d in paths:
        if not d:
            continue
        path = os.path.join(d, arg)
        #if os.path.exists(path) and not os.path.isdir(path) and is_executable(path):
        if os.path.exists(path) and not os.path.isdir(path):
            bin_path = path
            break
    if bin_path is None:
        raise ValueError('Failed to find required executable "%s" in paths: %s' % (arg, os.pathsep.join(paths)))

    return bin_path


print 'Searching in PATH: %s' % (os.environ.get('PATH', ''))
print get_bin_path('unzip')
print get_bin_path('zipinfo')