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distlib

A low-level library which implements some Python packaging standards (PEPs) and which could be used by third-party packaging tools to achieve interoperability.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

distlib has 342.5M monthly downloads and 64 GitHub stars. Version 0.4.3, first published in 2013.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.

It is used by 225 tracked packages, including virtualenv, pandas-read-xml and ansible-sign.

Downloads
Day
9.1M
Week
70.5M
Month
342.5M
Stars
64
Forks
55
Issues
9
Version
0.4.3

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
42
Adoption
60
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
25 days ago
Monthly downloads
342,458,630
• 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
342,458,630
Stars
64
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
• 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
10,071,458
Month daily avg
11,415,288
Momentum
-11.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
PSF-2.0
• 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
25 days ago
Total releases
35
Releases/year
2.6
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
92
Monthly downloads
342,458,630
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
68
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
167.3%
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 5.2M
Windows 210.3K
macOS 84.1K

Python Versions

3.11
26.9% 1.4M
3.10
26.7% 1.4M
3.12
25.8% 1.3M
3.13
12.1% 613.2K
3.14
8.5% 432.0K

Top Countries

1. US US
4.5M
2. SG SG
176.6K
3. DE DE
161.8K
4. IE IE
122.2K
5. GB GB
61.3K
6. NL NL
60.6K
7. AU AU
52.2K
8. KR KR
50.7K
9. FR FR
36.5K
10. HK HK
32.4K

Package Information

License
PSF-2.0
First Release
March 2, 2013
Last Release
3 weeks ago
Last Commit
3 weeks ago
Latest Version
0.4.3
Total Releases
35
Contributors
92
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Author
Vinay Sajip
Python Versions
2 2.7 3 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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