PyRank
enthought

comtypes

A pure Python, lightweight COM client and server framework, based on the ctypes Python FFI package.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

comtypes has 5.8M monthly downloads and 341 GitHub stars. Version 1.4.16 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2014.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2026.

It is used by 217 tracked packages, including pywinauto, pyttsx3 and rpaframework.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (enthought/comtypes) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
233.3K
Week
2.6M
Month
5.8M
Stars
341
Forks
104
Issues
96
Version
1.4.16

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
55
Adoption
100
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
20 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,752,862
• 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
5,752,862
Stars
341
Stars per 1k downloads
0.06
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
375,887
Month daily avg
191,762
Momentum
+96.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
• 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
126 days ago
Total releases
37
Releases/year
3.0
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
84
Monthly downloads
5,752,862
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
68
 
Issue Burden
281.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
80.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
105d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Windows 98.2K
Linux 5.9K
macOS 337

Python Versions

3.11
53.9% 54.8K
3.12
22.8% 23.2K
3.13
8.6% 8.7K
3.14
8.3% 8.4K
3.10
6.4% 6.5K

Top Countries

1. US US
67.3K
2. CN CN
5.3K
3. AR AR
5.2K
4. IN IN
4.1K
5. MX MX
3.3K
6. CA CA
1.6K
7. DE DE
1.1K
8. RO RO
978
9. RU RU
927
10. JP JP
886

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
January 24, 2014
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
3 weeks ago
Latest Version
1.4.16
Total Releases
37
Contributors
84
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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