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Package Information
Latest Version
Requires Python
>=2.6, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*
Licence
MIT
Last Release
2 years ago
Author
Ed Schofield
First Release
July 14, 2013
Total Releases
52
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
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 145 days despite active commits
- High downloads but no recent maintenance activity
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
67
Adoption
80
Community
85
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
822 days ago
Monthly downloads
43,346,111
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
43,346,111
Stars
1,192
Stars per 1k downloads
0.03
•
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
1,477,151
Month daily avg
1,444,870
Momentum
+2.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=2.6, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
•
Legacy
Supports 3.10 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
967 days ago
Total releases
52
Releases/year
3.9
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
107
Monthly downloads
43,346,111
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
74
Issue Burden
156.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
36.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
145d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
937.3K
Windows
22.3K
macOS
8.5K
Python Versions
3.12
36.9%
286.6K
3.10
21.2%
164.9K
3.11
18.0%
140.2K
3.13
14.7%
114.4K
3.9
9.2%
71.1K
Top Countries
1.
US
752.6K
US
2.
DE
27.1K
DE
3.
IN
26.0K
IN
4.
JP
24.2K
JP
5.
SG
18.1K
SG
6.
GB
14.8K
GB
7.
IE
13.6K
IE
8.
NL
13.6K
NL
9.
CA
11.3K
CA
10.
AU
7.6K
AU
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars *
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
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