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future

Easy, clean, reliable Python 2/3 compatibility
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

future has 71.7M monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 1.0.0, first published in 2013.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Feb 2024.

It is used by 1,501 tracked packages, including ffmpeg-python, line-bot-sdk and commonmark.

Downloads
Day
2.2M
Week
15.5M
Month
71.7M
Stars
1.2K
Forks
295
Issues
184
Version
1.0.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
67
Adoption
70
Community
85
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
720 days ago
Monthly downloads
71,663,699
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
71,663,699
Stars
1,190
Stars per 1k downloads
0.02
• 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
2,218,805
Month daily avg
2,388,790
Momentum
-7.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=2.6, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*
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
866 days ago
Total releases
52
Releases/year
4.0
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
108
Monthly downloads
71,663,699
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
75
 
Issue Burden
154.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
36.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
145d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 1.4M
Windows 76.3K
macOS 13.7K

Python Versions

3.10
33.4% 417.8K
3.12
30.8% 384.8K
3.11
22.9% 286.1K
3.13
7.5% 94.0K
3.9
5.5% 68.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
1.1M
2. DE DE
38.6K
3. JP JP
37.8K
4. SG SG
33.6K
5. CA CA
28.8K
6. IE IE
28.1K
7. NL NL
26.8K
8. IN IN
24.4K
9. GB GB
21.7K
10. AU AU
19.9K

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
July 14, 2013
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
1.0.0
Total Releases
52
Contributors
108
Open PRs
5
Archived
No
Author
Ed Schofield
Python Versions
2 2.6 2.7 3 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12
Wheels
cp27 cp36 py3
Keywords
future past python3 migration futurize backport six 2to3 modernize pasteurize 3to2
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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