want to take this one on @davidak ?

#318 is needed to use a sane name. I might find the time to do it then, but feel free to do it yourself.

This bug seems to be caused by inconsistent behavior of Bandit (and incomplete documentation).

If you use .bandit file, you need to start the file with text “[bandit]” and then add the arguments. For example:

[bandit]
exclude: \tests,\doc,\misc
tests: B101,B102,B104 

But if you want to use separate config file with "–configfile" argument on the command line, you have to remove the text “[bandit]”, replace “exclude” with “exclude_dirs” and add the values inside square brackets like this:

exclude_dirs: [\tests,\doc,\misc]
tests: [B101,B102,B104]