No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
dirty-equals has 2.6M monthly downloads and 997 GitHub stars. Version 0.11 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2022.
It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2025.
It is used by 2 tracked packages, including xlsxdatagrid and httpfpt.
GitHub topics include pytest, unit-testing and testing-tools.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
58
Adoption
70
Community
45
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
231 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,597,575
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
2,597,575
Stars
997
Stars per 1k downloads
0.38
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
85,825
Month daily avg
86,586
Momentum
-0.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
•
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
231 days ago
Total releases
19
Releases/year
4.3
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
2,597,575
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
43
Issue Burden
16.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
41.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
37.8K
Windows
2.2K
macOS
2.2K
Python Versions
3.11
22.9%
9.1K
3.10
21.6%
8.6K
3.14
21.0%
8.3K
3.12
19.3%
7.6K
3.13
15.1%
6.0K
Top Countries
1.
US
34.5K
US
2.
SG
3.8K
SG
3.
DE
2.1K
DE
4.
IE
1.8K
IE
5.
GB
789
GB
6.
RU
599
RU
7.
NL
515
NL
8.
HK
341
HK
9.
FI
270
FI
10.
CN
175
CN
Dependencies
0
1 optional dependencies
- pydantic[pydantic]
Used By
2
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
January 26, 2022
Last Release
7 months ago
Last Commit
7 months ago
Latest Version
0.11
Total Releases
19
Contributors
20
Open PRs
5
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh