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chrisjbillington

inotify-simple

A simple Python wrapper around inotify. No fancy bells and whistles, just a literal wrapper with ctypes.
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Monthly downloads
510.3K
Weekly downloads
125.2K
GitHub stars
135

Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.

Package Information

Latest Version
2.0.1
Requires Python
>=3.6
Licence
BSD-2-Clause
Last Release
1 year ago
First Release
January 11, 2016
Total Releases
21
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

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
43
Adoption
77
Community
30
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
417 days ago
Monthly downloads
510,314
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
510,314
Stars
135
Stars per 1k downloads
0.26
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
17,892
Month daily avg
17,010
Momentum
+5.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.6
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
BSD-2-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
417 days ago
Total releases
21
Releases/year
1.9
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
7
Monthly downloads
510,314
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
41
 
Issue Burden
29.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
31.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 
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Downloads by OS

Linux 13.2K
Windows 6
macOS 2

Python Versions

3.8
64.9% 7.8K
3.12
15.3% 1.8K
3.13
7.5% 900
3.14
6.5% 781
3.11
5.8% 694

Top Countries

1. US US
11.7K
2. AU AU
357
3. DE DE
160
4. FI FI
135
5. IE IE
111
6. SG SG
105
7. RU RU
92
8. GB GB
85
9. CA CA
76
10. FR FR
68

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Dependencies

0
No dependencies

Used By

33
View all 33 dependents

Repository details

Forks
22
Issues
4
Last Commit
1 year ago
Contributors
7
Open PRs
2
Archived
No

Data and sources

Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh
Keywords
inotify
Sources and methodology