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ericvsmith

dataclasses

A backport of the dataclasses module for Python 3.6
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

dataclasses has 8.3M monthly downloads and 592 GitHub stars. Version 0.8 supports Python >=3.6, <3.7, first published in 2017.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2020.

It is used by 780 tracked packages, including omegaconf, pypdf2 and dacite.

Downloads
Day
263.9K
Week
1.9M
Month
8.3M
Stars
592
Forks
52
Issues
8
Version
0.8

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
20
Popularity
56
Adoption
70
Community
30
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1568 days ago
Monthly downloads
8,343,711
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
8,343,711
Stars
592
Stars per 1k downloads
0.07
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
265,344
Month daily avg
278,124
Momentum
-4.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.6, <3.7
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
Apache
• 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
2061 days ago
Total releases
8
Releases/year
0.9
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
10
Monthly downloads
8,343,711
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
33
 
Issue Burden
13.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
19.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
493d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 220.4K
Windows 1.4K
macOS 556

Python Versions

3.7
35.9% 70.3K
3.9
29.1% 57.0K
3.12
14.0% 27.5K
3.10
11.9% 23.4K
3.6
9.0% 17.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
195.3K
2. NL NL
6.9K
3. IE IE
3.7K
4. VN VN
3.0K
5. DE DE
1.8K
6. GB GB
1.8K
7. SG SG
1.7K
8. BE BE
1.6K
9. AU AU
1.1K
10. CN CN
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Package Information

License
Apache
First Release
September 10, 2017
Last Release
5 years ago
Last Commit
4 years ago
Latest Version
0.8
Total Releases
8
Contributors
10
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Author
Eric V. Smith
Python Versions
3.6
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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