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python-control

control

The Python Control Systems Library is a Python module that implements basic operations for analysis and design of feedback control systems.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

control has 286K monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 0.10.2 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2014.

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

It is built on top of matplotlib, numpy and scipy. It is used by 57 tracked packages, including rosco, finesse and reforge-core.

Downloads
Day
9.1K
Week
67.9K
Month
286.1K
Stars
2.0K
Forks
460
Issues
83
Version
0.10.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
72
Adoption
74
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
28 days ago
Monthly downloads
286,070
• 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
286,070
Stars
2,039
Stars per 1k downloads
7.13
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
9,700
Month daily avg
9,536
Momentum
+1.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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
• 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
367 days ago
Total releases
21
Releases/year
1.7
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
76
Monthly downloads
286,070
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
95
 
Issue Burden
40.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
46.1
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
16.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
338d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 4.7K
Windows 209
macOS 35

Python Versions

3.12
49.7% 2.4K
3.10
16.9% 814
3.11
15.0% 726
3.9
10.1% 489
3.13
8.2% 396

Top Countries

1. US US
2.7K
2. GB GB
1.7K
3. DE DE
168
4. SG SG
78
5. CN CN
63
6. SE SE
46
7. JP JP
37
8. BR BR
32
9. HK HK
22
10. IN IN
20

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
April 4, 2014
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
4 weeks ago
Latest Version
0.10.2
Total Releases
21
Contributors
76
Open PRs
21
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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