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argh

An argparse wrapper that doesn't make you say "argh" each time you deal with it.
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Download Stats
Monthly downloads
1.6M
Weekly downloads
353.0K
GitHub stars
383

Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.

Package Information

Latest Version
0.31.3
Requires Python
>=3.8
Licence
GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Last Release
2 years ago
First Release
November 12, 2010
Total Releases
64
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details

The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
53
Adoption
70
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
824 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,590,564
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
• At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
1,590,564
Stars
383
Stars per 1k downloads
0.24
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
• Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
50,430
Month daily avg
53,019
Momentum
-4.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
• Legacy
Supports 3.10 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
• Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
824 days ago
Total releases
64
Releases/year
4.0
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
• Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
25
Monthly downloads
1,590,564
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
67
 
Issue Burden
91.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
13.1
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
44.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 
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Downloads by OS

Linux 40.0K
Windows 137
macOS 58

Python Versions

3.12
85.9% 32.4K
3.11
6.4% 2.4K
3.14
3.2% 1.2K
3.13
2.6% 971
3.8
2.0% 738

Top Countries

1. US US
33.0K
2. DK DK
6.6K
3. HU HU
345
4. GB GB
280
5. SG SG
238
6. DE DE
191
7. CN CN
63
8. NL NL
61
9. BE BE
51
10. AU AU
43

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Dependencies

0
9 optional dependencies

Used By

86
View all 86 dependents

Repository details

Forks
56
Issues
35
Last Commit
2 years ago
Contributors
25
Open PRs
11
Archived
No

Data and sources

Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh
Keywords
cli command line argparse optparse argument option
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