problem is that a dict get call should have been used.....
api.nova.server_create(request, context['name'], image_id, context['flavor'], context['keypair_id'], normalize_newlines(custom_script), context['security_group_ids'], block_device_mapping=dev_mapping_1, block_device_mapping_v2=dev_mapping_2, nics=nics, availability_zone=avail_zone, instance_count=int(context['count']), admin_pass=context['admin_pass'], disk_config=context['disk_config'])
problem is that a dict get call should have been used.....