PyRank
ipython

comm

Python Comm implementation for the Jupyter kernel protocol
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

comm has 77.2M monthly downloads and 12 GitHub stars. Version 0.2.3 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2020.

It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jul 2025.

It is used by 136 tracked packages, including ipykernel, ipywidgets and metakernel.

Downloads
Day
2.4M
Week
16.9M
Month
77.2M
Stars
12
Forks
17
Issues
1
Version
0.2.3

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
28
Adoption
70
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
265 days ago
Monthly downloads
77,214,010
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
77,214,010
Stars
12
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
• 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
2,416,528
Month daily avg
2,573,800
Momentum
-6.1%
((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
BSD 3-Clause 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
346 days ago
Total releases
10
Releases/year
1.8
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
35
Monthly downloads
77,214,010
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
64
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
205.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
81d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 1.8M
Windows 50.0K
macOS 20.8K

Python Versions

3.11
42.4% 704.6K
3.10
23.7% 393.0K
3.12
18.7% 310.8K
3.13
10.6% 175.3K
3.8
4.7% 77.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
1.5M
2. IE IE
97.5K
3. SG SG
50.1K
4. DE DE
30.5K
5. IN IN
29.0K
6. NL NL
22.5K
7. GB GB
17.2K
8. JP JP
14.2K
9. BR BR
12.2K
10. CN CN
11.6K

Package Information

License
BSD 3-Clause License
First Release
November 2, 2020
Last Release
11 months ago
Last Commit
8 months ago
Latest Version
0.2.3
Total Releases
10
Contributors
35
Open PRs
3
Archived
No
Author
Jupyter contributors
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
ipykernel jupyter xeus-python
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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