PyRank
scientific-python

lazy-loader

Populate library namespace without incurring immediate import costs
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lazy-loader has 27.9M monthly downloads and 208 GitHub stars. Version 0.5 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2024.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2026.

It is built on top of packaging. It is used by 306 tracked packages, including scikit-image, librosa and mne.

Downloads
Day
881.5K
Week
6.3M
Month
27.9M
Stars
208
Forks
26
Issues
9
Version
0.5

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
35
Popularity
46
Adoption
70
Community
55
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
123 days ago
Monthly downloads
27,902,191
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
27,902,191
Stars
208
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
• 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
902,310
Month daily avg
930,073
Momentum
-3.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
122 days ago
Total releases
2
Releases/year
0.9
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
44
Monthly downloads
27,902,191
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
60
 
Issue Burden
43.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
169.2%
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 460.2K
Windows 69.5K
macOS 20.0K

Python Versions

3.12
38.1% 200.1K
3.11
24.3% 127.5K
3.10
18.9% 99.1K
3.13
14.2% 74.7K
3.14
4.5% 23.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
358.9K
2. IN IN
24.2K
3. SG SG
20.1K
4. CN CN
15.0K
5. IE IE
12.9K
6. JP JP
12.1K
7. DE DE
11.9K
8. CA CA
7.1K
9. NL NL
6.9K
10. GB GB
6.7K

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
April 5, 2024
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
4 months ago
Latest Version
0.5
Total Releases
2
Contributors
44
Open PRs
8
Archived
No
Author
Scientific Python Developers
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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