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editdistance

Fast implementation of the edit distance(Levenshtein distance)
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

editdistance has 3.6M monthly downloads and 702 GitHub stars. Version 0.8.1 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2013.

Its repository is archived and was distributed under a permissive license, last released in Feb 2024.

It is used by 123 tracked packages, including funasr, seqio and seqio-nightly.

Downloads
Day
106.5K
Week
785.6K
Month
3.6M
Stars
702
Forks
75
Issues
25
Version
0.8.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
6
Popularity
58
Adoption
70
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
877 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,595,338
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
Repository is archived on GitHub — no further commits expected.
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
3,595,338
Stars
702
Stars per 1k downloads
0.20
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
112,232
Month daily avg
119,845
Momentum
-6.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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
877 days ago
Total releases
13
Releases/year
1.0
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
11
Monthly downloads
3,595,338
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
35.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
14.7%
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 48.9K
Windows 3.2K
macOS 1.6K

Python Versions

3.12
47.9% 24.3K
3.11
31.8% 16.1K
3.10
14.1% 7.1K
3.13
4.3% 2.2K
3.9
1.9% 945

Top Countries

1. US US
45.0K
2. IE IE
1.4K
3. SG SG
1.1K
4. CN CN
1.0K
5. JP JP
610
6. DE DE
503
7. NL NL
431
8. HK HK
419
9. IN IN
385
10. GB GB
305

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
September 13, 2013
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
2 years ago
Latest Version
0.8.1
Total Releases
13
Contributors
11
Open PRs
4
Archived
Yes
Wheels
cp310 cp311 cp312 cp33 cp34 cp37 cp38 cp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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