diff --git a/infer/lib/python/infer b/infer/lib/python/infer
index 97663e06a..8ea8d15cc 100755
--- a/infer/lib/python/infer
+++ b/infer/lib/python/infer
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import platform
 import sys
 
 import inferlib
-from inferlib import analyze, utils
+from inferlib import analyze, config, utils
 
 
 CAPTURE_PACKAGE = 'capture'
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ def main():
                              encoding=utils.LOCALE) as bugs_file:
                 bugs = json.load(bugs_file)
                 if len(bugs) > 0:
-                    sys.exit(analyze.BUG_FOUND_ERROR_CODE)
+                    sys.exit(config.BUG_FOUND_ERROR_CODE)
         except OSError:
             pass
 
diff --git a/infer/lib/python/inferlib/analyze.py b/infer/lib/python/inferlib/analyze.py
index 15849dfcd..c3fb4b378 100644
--- a/infer/lib/python/inferlib/analyze.py
+++ b/infer/lib/python/inferlib/analyze.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ import tempfile
 import time
 import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
 
-from . import jwlib, utils
+from . import config, jwlib, utils
 
 # Increase the limit of the CSV parser to sys.maxlimit
 csv.field_size_limit(sys.maxsize)
@@ -46,8 +46,6 @@ ERROR = 'ERROR'
 WARNING = 'WARNING'
 INFO = 'INFO'
 
-BUG_FOUND_ERROR_CODE = 2
-
 def get_infer_version():
     try:
         return subprocess.check_output([
@@ -105,7 +103,7 @@ base_group.add_argument('-nf', '--no-filtering', action='store_true',
 base_group.add_argument('--fail-on-bug', action='store_true',
                         help='''Exit with error code %d if Infer found
                         something to report'''
-                        % BUG_FOUND_ERROR_CODE)
+                        % config.BUG_FOUND_ERROR_CODE)
 
 base_group.add_argument('--android-harness', action='store_true',
                         help='''[experimental] Create harness to detect bugs
diff --git a/infer/lib/python/inferlib/config.py b/infer/lib/python/inferlib/config.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d36d5d40e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/infer/lib/python/inferlib/config.py
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2015 - present Facebook, Inc.
+# All rights reserved.
+#
+# This source code is licensed under the BSD style license found in the
+# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree. An additional grant
+# of patent rights can be found in the PATENTS file in the same directory.
+
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+from __future__ import division
+from __future__ import print_function
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+# exit value when infer finds something to report
+BUG_FOUND_ERROR_CODE = 2