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amitdev

lru-dict

A fast and memory efficient LRU cache for Python
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

lru-dict has 5.2M monthly downloads and 282 GitHub stars. Version 1.4.1 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2013.

It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2025.

It is used by 131 tracked packages, including py-evm, homeassistant and bleak-esphome.

Downloads
Day
168.0K
Week
1.0M
Month
5.2M
Stars
282
Forks
48
Issues
17
Version
1.4.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
51
Adoption
60
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
277 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,215,083
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
5,215,083
Stars
282
Stars per 1k downloads
0.05
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
143,668
Month daily avg
173,836
Momentum
-17.4%
((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
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
247 days ago
Total releases
13
Releases/year
1.0
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
18
Monthly downloads
5,215,083
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
51
 
Issue Burden
60.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
37.5%
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 99.3K
Windows 687
macOS 571

Python Versions

3.11
39.0% 36.4K
3.10
33.3% 31.2K
3.12
13.3% 12.5K
3.9
7.3% 6.8K
3.14
7.1% 6.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
70.3K
2. SG SG
6.0K
3. DE DE
5.8K
4. GB GB
4.0K
5. IN IN
3.8K
6. AU AU
3.3K
7. CA CA
2.3K
8. ZA ZA
2.1K
9. ID ID
1.8K
10. RU RU
1.1K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
June 12, 2013
Last Release
8 months ago
Last Commit
9 months ago
Latest Version
1.4.1
Total Releases
13
Contributors
18
Open PRs
3
Archived
No
Author
Amit Dev
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39 pp310 pp311 pp37 pp38 pp39
Keywords
lru dict
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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