Change in behavior in bandit 1.6.0

Stephen Finucane sfinucan at redhat.com
Fri May 10 13:58:34 UTC 2019


On Fri, 2019-05-10 at 09:07 -0400, Jim Rollenhagen wrote:
> On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 5:48 AM Stephen Finucane <sfinucan at redhat.com> wrote:
> > We've noticed a spate of recent test failures within the 'pep8' jobs in
> > oslo recently. It seems these are because of the release of bandit
> > 1.6.0. The root cause is that the '-x' (exclude) option seems to have
> > changed behavior. Previously, to match a path like 'oslo_log/tests/*',
> > you could state '-x test'. This option now expects a glob patterns,
> > such as '-x oslo_log/tests/*'. If you use bandit, you probably have to
> > update your 'tox.ini' accordingly. See [1] for an example.
> 
> As a note, it looks like you have to catch every .py file in this glob,
> so this won't work for more complex directory layouts. e.g. in Keystone,
> `-x keystone/tests/*` still fails, as does `-x keystone/tests/**/*`, etc.
> I've just blacklisted this version there.[3]
>  
> > It's worth noting that bandit is one of the few packages we don't
> > manage the version for [2], so if you're not already limiting yourself
> > to a version, perhaps it would be a good idea to do so to avoid stable
> > branches breaking periodically. Also, this is something that really
> > shouldn't have happened in a minor version (backwards incompatible
> > behavior change, yo) but it has so we'll live with it. I would ask
> > though that the bandit maintainers, whoever ye be, be more careful
> > about this kind of stuff in the future. Thanks :)
> 
> FWIW, looks like this was an unintentional regression[4] that they're
> working on fixing[5] in 1.6.1.

Yay! Go bandit devs :)

Stephen

> > Stephen
> > 
> > [1] https://review.opendev.org/#/c/658249/
> > [2] 
> > https://github.com/openstack/requirements/blob/master/blacklist.txt
> > 
> > 
> 
> // jim
> 
> [3] https://review.opendev.org/#/c/658107/ 
> [4] https://github.com/PyCQA/bandit/issues/488
> [5] https://github.com/PyCQA/bandit/pull/489




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