bandit VS Flake8

Compare bandit vs Flake8 and see what are their differences.

bandit

Bandit is a tool designed to find common security issues in Python code. (by PyCQA)

Flake8

flake8 is a python tool that glues together pycodestyle, pyflakes, mccabe, and third-party plugins to check the style and quality of some python code. (by PyCQA)
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bandit Flake8
21 32
5,914 3,231
2.6% 2.1%
8.2 7.5
4 days ago 4 days ago
Python Python
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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bandit

Posts with mentions or reviews of bandit. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-18.

Flake8

Posts with mentions or reviews of Flake8. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-18.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bandit and Flake8 you can also consider the following projects:

Pylint - It's not just a linter that annoys you!

black - The uncompromising Python code formatter [Moved to: https://github.com/psf/black]

autopep8 - A tool that automatically formats Python code to conform to the PEP 8 style guide.

pylama - Code audit tool for python.

autoflake - Removes unused imports and unused variables as reported by pyflakes

prospector - Inspects Python source files and provides information about type and location of classes, methods etc

black - The uncompromising Python code formatter

ruff - An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust.

pycodestyle - Simple Python style checker in one Python file

mypy - Optional static typing for Python

pre-commit-hooks - Some out-of-the-box hooks for pre-commit

safety - Safety checks Python dependencies for known security vulnerabilities and suggests the proper remediations for vulnerabilities detected.