No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

devtools has 1.9M monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 0.12.2 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2017.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Sep 2023.

It is built on top of asttokens, executing and pygments. It is used by 106 tracked packages, including graphrag, aiohttp-devtools and gt4py.

GitHub topics include python-devtools and devtools.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (samuelcolvin/python-devtools) with 2 other packages. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
58.8K
Week
453.8K
Month
1.9M
Stars
1.1K
Forks
51
Issues
22
Version
0.12.2

Package Insights

Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
59
Adoption
80
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
528 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,883,968
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
1,883,968
Stars
1,079
Stars per 1k downloads
0.57
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
64,835
Month daily avg
62,799
Momentum
+3.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=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
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
1037 days ago
Total releases
18
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
13
Monthly downloads
1,883,968
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
44
 
Issue Burden
20.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
25.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
509d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 20.7K
macOS 666
Windows 449

Python Versions

3.12
45.0% 9.5K
3.14
15.8% 3.3K
3.11
15.3% 3.2K
3.10
12.3% 2.6K
3.13
11.7% 2.5K

Top Countries

1. US US
16.8K
2. DE DE
2.3K
3. SG SG
1.5K
4. KR KR
962
5. NL NL
775
6. NO NO
657
7. IE IE
292
8. BR BR
274
9. FI FI
254
10. HK HK
250
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
August 21, 2017
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
0.12.2
Total Releases
18
Contributors
13
Open PRs
11
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11
Wheels
py3 py35 py36
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh