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backports-functools-lru-cache

Backport of functools.lru_cache
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

backports-functools-lru-cache has 1.5M monthly downloads and 37 GitHub stars. Version 2.0.0 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2014.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Dec 2023.

It is used by 45 tracked packages, including justext, enlighten and azure-schemaregistry-avroserializer.

Downloads
Day
48.2K
Week
348.4K
Month
1.5M
Stars
37
Forks
13
Issues
0
Version
2.0.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
70
Popularity
33
Adoption
70
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
85 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,520,380
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
1,520,380
Stars
37
Stars per 1k downloads
0.02
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
49,774
Month daily avg
50,679
Momentum
-1.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
• Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT License
• 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
937 days ago
Total releases
18
Releases/year
1.5
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
22
Monthly downloads
1,520,380
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
48
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
169.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
852d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 33.8K
Windows 547
macOS 126

Python Versions

2.7
79.1% 25.8K
3.12
7.4% 2.4K
3.7
6.7% 2.2K
3.11
4.2% 1.4K
3.10
2.6% 849

Top Countries

1. US US
24.1K
2. SG SG
2.6K
3. AU AU
2.0K
4. IT IT
1.7K
5. DE DE
1.6K
6. IN IN
1.1K
7. ID ID
305
8. GB GB
249
9. IE IE
200
10. CA CA
119

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
May 14, 2014
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
2 months ago
Latest Version
2.0.0
Total Releases
18
Contributors
22
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
Raymond Hettinger
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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