Python code for security analysis using Bandit

Question

I would like to get python code for an analysis using Bandit static analyzer. The main emphasis is security, for python 2.7.

Can anyone help ?

Answer 1

You don't need to write code to test your software using Bandit static analyzer tool.

All you need to do (in the most basic scenario) is:

1. Install Bandit with pip3 install bandit (Python3) or pip install bandit (Python2)
2. Navigate to your project in terminal, e.g. cd /home/user/projects/abc/
3. Run the Bandit on your source code with bandit -r .

What you may also want to do, is to exclude virtualenv libraries' files from testing by adding -x env to the command (now it would look like this: bandit -r . -x env).

For more information, please refer to Bandit main page.