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fix reading initial values from .bandit #722

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@alipqb alipqb commented Jul 10, 2021

How to fix reading .bandit initial values:

Previously bandit was not able to read initialization values from the .bandit file
like the exclude keyword. This has caused a lot of CI pipelines that were using
bandit to fail. In this pull, I have tried to fix this problem.

What was the main problem that was causing this bug?

The CLI of bandit is written with python's popular library argparse .
The main problem was with the handling of default arguments' values
of the bandit command-line program. The program was not able to
distinguish between manually passed arguments and default arguments
values. Before In the first line of _log_option_source function in
bandit.cli.main.py, the function only checked whether arg_val exists
or not. At first glance, it seems that this is a correct action, but the truth is
that this function fails when the default value of an argument is a string
like --exclude. When we didn't pass an argument to --exclude, the value
of arg_val would be equal to default value of the argument and passed
the if condition and will neglect the initial value in the .bandit file.

Resolves: #499, #595

@sigmavirus24 sigmavirus24 merged commit a83c53f into PyCQA:master Nov 11, 2021
kevinoid added a commit to kevinoid/python-project-template that referenced this pull request Mar 17, 2023
Move the list of excluded files from --exclude in tox.ini to
exclude_dirs in pyproject.toml to centralize configuration in
pyproject.toml and make it accessible to tools and bandit invocations
outside of tox.

- Remove the comment that exclude is ignored by bandit 1.6.3+, which was
  fixed by PyCQA/bandit#722 in bandit 1.7.1.
- Change exclude (which only works for INI files) to exclude_dirs (which
  only works for TOML and YAML files), as described in
  PyCQA/bandit#876
- Add /.git/ and /__pycache__/ to exclude_dirs to match --exclude.
- Remove --exclude from invocation in tox.ini

Signed-off-by: Kevin Locke <kevin@kevinlocke.name>
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Exclude paths in config file ignored if passing specific files to Bandit CLI
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