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python-distro

distro

A much more elaborate replacement for Python's removed `platform.linux_distribution()` method
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

distro has 377.4M monthly downloads and 281 GitHub stars. Version 1.9.0 supports Python 3.6+, first published in 2016.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Dec 2023.

It is used by 1,227 tracked packages, including sglang, openai and google-genai.

GitHub topics include linux-distribution, distro and distribution.

Downloads
Day
12.3M
Week
87.1M
Month
377.4M
Stars
281
Forks
69
Issues
9
Version
1.9.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
52
Adoption
70
Community
65
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
7 days ago
Monthly downloads
377,405,912
• 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
377,405,912
Stars
281
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
12,443,747
Month daily avg
12,580,197
Momentum
-1.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.6
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 License, Version 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
925 days ago
Total releases
16
Releases/year
1.6
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
41
Monthly downloads
377,405,912
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
32.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
59.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
918d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 8.7M
Windows 186.5K
macOS 92.0K

Python Versions

3.12
40.8% 3.5M
3.11
23.0% 2.0M
3.10
15.6% 1.4M
3.13
15.3% 1.3M
3.14
5.3% 460.0K

Top Countries

1. US US
6.6M
2. SG SG
739.8K
3. IN IN
498.9K
4. DE DE
161.1K
5. NL NL
135.3K
6. HK HK
87.1K
7. GB GB
70.7K
8. JP JP
66.6K
9. IE IE
62.2K
10. FI FI
59.7K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
Apache License, Version 2.0
First Release
April 21, 2016
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
1.9.0
Total Releases
16
Contributors
41
Open PRs
5
Archived
No
Author
Nir Cohen
Python Versions
3 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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