This Python package checks the security of your project

Welcome back! Python is one of my favorite programming languages, it can practically do anything you can think of, but one thing I find myself glossing over is the security of my project, so what if there was a way to check the security of my Python project? Well, there actually is! In this specific case we’ll be taking a look at the Bandit package, if you want to check out their GitHub page, check out their GitHub page below:

GitHub - PyCQA/bandit: Bandit is a tool designed to find common security issues in Python code.

This specific package will actually scan your Python code, find common issues within that project, then generate a report for your projects security. If that sounds like something that’s important to you, then definitely install this package with the following pip command:

pip install bandit
pip3 install bandit

Once installed you can run this command:

bandit -r path/to/your/code

There are a few configurations you can make to bandit, you can change the baseline path of your report, this makes it easier to ignore known vulnerabilities that may not be important for…