PyRank
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locket

File-based locks for Python on Linux and Windows
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

locket has 18.8M monthly downloads and 26 GitHub stars. Version 1.0.0, first published in 2013.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2022.

It is used by 38 tracked packages, including partd, distributed and radiomicsmodellingsuite.

Downloads
Day
707.3K
Week
4.9M
Month
18.8M
Stars
26
Forks
14
Issues
2
Version
1.0.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
20
Popularity
31
Adoption
90
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1537 days ago
Monthly downloads
18,776,575
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
18,776,575
Stars
26
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
• 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
694,737
Month daily avg
625,886
Momentum
+11.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*
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-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
1537 days ago
Total releases
5
Releases/year
0.4
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
4
Monthly downloads
18,776,575
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
43
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
28.6%
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 519.2K
Windows 5.0K
macOS 4.3K

Python Versions

3.9
55.8% 265.7K
3.7
14.1% 67.3K
3.12
11.7% 55.9K
3.11
10.1% 48.1K
3.10
8.3% 39.5K

Top Countries

1. US US
464.0K
2. NL NL
12.1K
3. IE IE
10.1K
4. GB GB
8.3K
5. SG SG
7.7K
6. BE BE
5.8K
7. DE DE
5.1K
8. IN IN
3.0K
9. JP JP
2.1K
10. CN CN
2.1K

Package Information

License
BSD-2-Clause
First Release
February 3, 2013
Last Release
4 years ago
Last Commit
4 years ago
Latest Version
1.0.0
Total Releases
5
Contributors
4
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Author
Michael Williamson
Python Versions
2 2.7 3 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
lock filelock lockfile process
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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