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flit

Simplified packaging of Python modules
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

flit has 18.4M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 3.12.0 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2015.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2025.

It is built on top of docutils, flit-core and pip. It is used by 31 tracked packages, including rabbitmqpubsub, django-drifter and vjer.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (pypa/flit) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
602.5K
Week
4.3M
Month
18.4M
Stars
2.2K
Forks
156
Issues
114
Version
3.12.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
68
Adoption
70
Community
70
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
68 days ago
Monthly downloads
18,434,933
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
18,434,933
Stars
2,247
Stars per 1k downloads
0.12
• 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
612,121
Month daily avg
614,498
Momentum
-0.4%
((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
BSD-3-Clause
• 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
468 days ago
Total releases
53
Releases/year
4.7
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
126
Monthly downloads
18,434,933
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
72
 
Issue Burden
50.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
4.9
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
80.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
400d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 583.6K
Windows 639
macOS 116

Python Versions

3.10
90.8% 528.7K
3.11
3.1% 18.3K
3.13
2.2% 12.5K
3.12
2.1% 12.5K
3.14
1.8% 10.3K

Top Countries

1. US US
582.2K
2. GB GB
1.0K
3. SG SG
878
4. CN CN
475
5. DE DE
439
6. KR KR
282
7. IE IE
276
8. NL NL
233
9. TW TW
151
10. FR FR
130

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
March 16, 2015
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
2 months ago
Latest Version
3.12.0
Total Releases
53
Contributors
126
Open PRs
20
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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