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configparser

backport of configparser from Python's stdlib
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

configparser has 11M monthly downloads and 63 GitHub stars. Version 7.2.0 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2011.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2025.

It is used by 805 tracked packages, including datadog, awscurl and click-configfile.

Downloads
Day
352.5K
Week
2.5M
Month
11.0M
Stars
63
Forks
21
Issues
0
Version
7.2.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
38
Adoption
70
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
84 days ago
Monthly downloads
10,984,235
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
10,984,235
Stars
63
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
• 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
353,590
Month daily avg
366,141
Momentum
-3.4%
((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 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
485 days ago
Total releases
31
Releases/year
2.0
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
20
Monthly downloads
10,984,235
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
95.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
401d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 209.7K
Windows 3.9K
macOS 1.3K

Python Versions

3.11
27.1% 41.4K
3.12
22.6% 34.5K
2.7
19.1% 29.1K
3.9
16.5% 25.2K
3.7
14.7% 22.4K

Top Countries

1. US US
158.3K
2. IN IN
9.5K
3. DE DE
8.0K
4. IE IE
7.2K
5. CA CA
3.5K
6. NL NL
3.2K
7. JP JP
2.7K
8. SG SG
2.6K
9. CN CN
2.5K
10. GB GB
1.9K

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
April 29, 2011
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
2 months ago
Latest Version
7.2.0
Total Releases
31
Contributors
20
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
configparser ini parsing conf cfg configuration file
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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