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diff-match-patch-python

diff-match-patch

Diff Match Patch is a high-performance library in multiple languages that manipulates plain text.
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

diff-match-patch has 4.6M monthly downloads and 59 GitHub stars. Version 20241021 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2011.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Oct 2024.

It is used by 131 tracked packages, including django-import-export, aider-chat and weblate.

Downloads
Day
146.0K
Week
1.0M
Month
4.6M
Stars
59
Forks
11
Issues
2
Version
20241021

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
20
Popularity
35
Adoption
70
Community
25
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
623 days ago
Monthly downloads
4,563,649
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
4,563,649
Stars
59
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
148,796
Month daily avg
152,122
Momentum
-2.2%
((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
Apache Software 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
623 days ago
Total releases
8
Releases/year
0.5
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
Unknown
Monthly downloads
4,563,649
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
Contributor count is missing — this usually indicates the package has no linked GitHub repository.
Engagement
35
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
0.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
-
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 59.3K
Windows 3.2K
macOS 1.2K

Python Versions

3.12
38.3% 22.4K
3.11
21.6% 12.7K
3.13
18.0% 10.6K
3.14
11.7% 6.9K
3.10
10.4% 6.1K

Top Countries

1. US US
54.4K
2. DE DE
1.9K
3. IN IN
1.5K
4. NL NL
1.1K
5. FR FR
790
6. GB GB
774
7. SG SG
711
8. RU RU
639
9. AU AU
559
10. JP JP
433

Package Information

License
Apache Software License
First Release
September 8, 2011
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
20241021
Total Releases
8
Contributors
0
Open PRs
6
Archived
No
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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