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A security linter from PyCQA

• Free software: Apache license
• Documentation: https://bandit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• Source: https://github.com/PyCQA/bandit
• Bugs: https://github.com/PyCQA/bandit/issues
• Contributing: https://github.com/PyCQA/bandit/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md

Overview

Bandit is a tool designed to find common security issues in Python code. To do this Bandit processes each file, builds an AST from it, and runs appropriate plugins against the AST nodes. Once Bandit has finished scanning all the files it generates a report.

Bandit was originally developed within the OpenStack Security Project and later rehomed to PyCQA.

Show Your Style

Use our badge in your project's README!

using Markdown:

[![security: bandit](https://img.shields.io/badge/security-bandit-yellow.svg)](https://github.com/PyCQA/bandit)

using RST:

.. image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/security-bandit-yellow.svg
    :target: https://github.com/PyCQA/bandit
    :alt: Security Status

References

Python AST module documentation: https://docs.python.org/3/library/ast.html

Green Tree Snakes - the missing Python AST docs: https://greentreesnakes.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Documentation of the various types of AST nodes that Bandit currently covers or could be extended to cover: https://greentreesnakes.readthedocs.org/en/latest/nodes.html